The Dalits tired of thousands of years of discrimination turned to Jesus Chris and Christianity to save them from the Hinduvata tyranny imposed on them. However Jesus could not save them in this world. The Hinduists hunted them, hounded them, massacred them, raped them and have perpetuated a genocide on Dalits in general and Christian Dalits in particular. Orissa Christians, largely Dailts, have been heavily persecuted since Christmas of 2007 and now again in August 2008.

History is usually written by the victors. The Dalits have not had a voice for thousands of years. The Dalit discrimination has to be aired by all peace loving people on the planet. Many Dalits believe that the discrimination perpetuated against them for centureis is based on thier ethnicity and the color of their skin. Dalit leaders have proposed that their status in the Hindu caste system is based on their Dravidian roots. Dalits leaders are openly calling for the mass conversion of the 150 million Dalits to Islam which would offer them equality. The Hinduvata reaction to the conversion of Dalits is ferocious and violent. The poor penury stricken Dalits must remain in bondage for perpetuity! This dated article lists the atrocities against the Dalits. Rape and murder have been institutionalized. 3 to 6 million women have been raped for being Dalit. 3 million Dalits have been killed for being Dalit. Indian secularism has not touched the 150-250 million Dalits or the 150 million Muslims.

Sudra Holocaust: Genocide of 1 million Dalits in India since 1947: About three million Dalit women have been raped and around one million Dalits killed from the time of Independence. This is 25 times more than number of soldiers killed during the wars fought after independence. That is why Dalits do not need Aryan culture or Hindu Dharma based on caste any more. …” [Dr. Tulsiram] http://rupeenews.com...is-is-25-times/

The Dalits are at the lowest rung of the ladder in India. It is an atrocity to which many Indian leaders have paid lip service to but in actuality done nothing. There is some tokenism, but the size of the ongoing travesty of justice has no parallel in human history. Nowhere in the world have so many people been discriminated for such a long time–3,500 years.

Mass Murder of Dalits : Ethnic Cleansing in South Asia

To access the defunct site kindly use this link http://web.archive.org/ and then put the url address, and you will be able to see the old site. That site has been taken off from the whole internet, even in the usa. Rupee News is determined to shed light on the plight of the Dalits, and will continue to reproduce the Sudra Halocaust information to our readers.

2 Dalits killed Per Day 40 Million Dalits Enslaved Promotio Justiae No. 71, July 1999 Volume 2 Number 276, Sun. May 30, 1999 “The 1991 Government survey of India states that on an average day, two Dalits are killed, three Dalit women are raped, two Dalits’ houses are burned and fifty Dalits are assaulted by people of a higher caste.”

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The Dalit are considered as untouchable in Hinduism. When the Dalits convert to religions where they are guaranteed equality they are hounded and harassed. The Dalits who converted to Christianity Orissa face church burnings, gang rape, and murder at will. The Dalits who convert to Islam are branded as terrorists and charged under POTA and other draconian laws. As “terrorists” the ex Dalits face fake encounters, torture and death by the Indian agencies. The Maoist belt from Nepal running down to Andhra Pradesh is made of millions of Dalits (figures rnage from 250 million to 450 million). They are up in arms against the central government of India and control more than 40% of the Indian land mass.

Hakim Bey: Don't just survive while waiting for someone's revolution to clear your head
Napoleon Bonaparte: The world suffers a lot, not because of the violence of bad people, but because of the silence of good people!

How is Indian Muslim in the land of Gandhi? What is their socio-economic and political condition? Let us discuss the life style and the environment in which the Indian Muslims are living. What is their position in the main body politic of the Indian society, not in any particular region but throughout India? Let us discuss their position in different important sectors compared to other religious communities. How far they have made progress in education, trade, business and industry compared to other religious communities in India? What is their representation in the services, in public and private sectors? How is the Muslim community represented in the parliament and in the leadership of different political parties? These are the important criterions for a minority community is not identified by its numbers but decided by its socio-economic conditions. How backward the community is? Does the community lagging behind other communities as far as empowerment is concerned? In this article I shall use the statistics provided by the report on the Minorities Commission headed by Dr. Gopal Singh that was appointed by Indian Prime Minister Indra Gandhi in 1980 and report on ‘Socio-economic Status of India’s 150 Million Muslims’ prepared by seven member committee headed by Justice Rajinder Sachar that was appointed by the current Prime Minister of India Manmohan Singh in March 2005. This report has been prepared by the committee after visiting 13 most Muslim populous states and tabled in the Indian Parliament on 30 November 2006. Press reports alleged that there are discrepancies between leaked copies of the report and the final version suggesting that some parts of the Sachar Committee findings have been deleted before making them public.

Muslims represent 13.4 percent of the Indian population. Their total number being 150 million, unofficial figure is however considered still more. Muslims are marginalized in all sectors in India. In the Lok Sabha which consists of 544 members, for instance, according to the population of Muslims they should have 83 members; but in every election their number has steadily declined. Today it stands at only 17. Likewise, in the Rajya Sabha which consists of 250 members, where because of indirect election, political parties could easily redress the imbalance; the Muslims’ share is far below their population strength. Their number today is 11. The representation is going down everywhere, from Panchayat Samities to Zilla Parishads, from municipalities to corporations, from Zilla Parishads to Vidan Sabhas and to the Lok Sabha.

Muslims however are not bothered whether they had a Muslim President or Minister, what they wanted was the removal of economic disparities and social inequality.

The same is true with regard to employment whether in agriculture, trade or industry. In the police and armed forces, their number is negligible. In the Indian Foreign and Administrative service, the percentage of Muslims is abysmally low; this is so in other public services too. They have hardly any share in the management of public sector, which is largely managed by non-Muslims. In the private sector, their position is worse. All in all, the condition of Indian Muslims has considerably deteriorated after Partition of the sub-continent in 1947; they have literally touched rock-bottom. The recurrence of communal riots allows the Muslims no respite; the police give them hardly any protection. Also, being vastly outnumbered in most areas, their sense of insecurity is enhanced with every passing disturbance.

In 1980 Prime Minister Indira Gandhi set up a high powered panel to go into the condition of minorities headed by Dr. Gopal Singh. They collected data pertaining to the actual condition of the minorities, in particular their participation in schools, colleges and professional institutions on the one hand and their employment in public sector undertakings, private enterprises, state and union services, cooperative and banking and such allied sectors on the other. In over four years, after intensive investigation by the staff of the panel and on the basis of the facts and figures that they have collected, it was found that the plight of the minorities was worst, especially of Muslims. However the report was so startling that Indira Gandhi shelved it. The report however saw the day light when Prime Minister V. P. Singh presented it to the Parliament. Unfortunately no Indian government bothers about the uplift of minorities in concrete terms. The occurrence of communal riots paralyzed the Muslims not only politically but also economically. The minorities have become subdued and hurting them is no longer even politically productive.

The number of Muslims in government services is steadily declining; hardly one or two secretaries in the Centre or States, there is no chief secretary in any state, one high court judge or so in some states; no chief justice in any state. The number of district judges and magistrates don’t exceed even two percent of the total; in the armed forces the position is still worse; in industry they have a marginal existence. In public sector undertakings, out of 481 directors, only 6 are Muslims- no chairman, no managing director. In IB and RAW Muslims are debarred.

According to Sachar report the presence of Muslims has been found to be only 3 percent in the IAS, 1.8 percent in the IFS and 4 percent in the IPS. These services constitute the core of civil service responsible for implementing all policy decisions, development programmes and national and state activities. They have done more to deprive the Muslims of their legitimate share. The share of Muslims in employment in various departments is abysmally low at all levels. Muslim community has a representation of only 4.5 percent in Indian Railways while 98.7 percent of them are positioned at lower levels. Representation of Muslims is very low in the universities and in banks. In no state does the representation of Muslims in the government departments match their population share. Their share in police constables is only 6 percent, in health 4.4 percent, in transport 6.5 percent.

According to the Sachar report the share of Muslims having government jobs is just 4.9 percent. Muslims constitute just 3.2 percent of those in India’s elite civil service corps.

The situation is worse in states with large Muslim populations. For example, in West Bengal, Uttar Pradesh, and Assam, where Muslims form 25.2 percent, 18.5 percent and 30.9 percent of the population, respectively, their share of government jobs is 4.7 percent, 7.5 percent, and 10.9 percent, respectively.

In the private sector, including the top business and industrial houses of Tatas and Birlas, it was found that Muslim employment come to 8.16 percent. Muslims did not get even 50 percent of what their population entitles in the various schemes involving small farmers, marginal farmers, agricultural laborers, landless laborers, training schemes under Integrated Rural Development, rural artisans programmes such as forestry, horticulture, nurseries, pest control, veterinary services, tractor, pump services etc. Likewise, the picture of Muslim employment in National Rural Employment Programme was not encouraging.

In the small-scale sector, the Muslim ownership figures were almost 15 percent of the total. However they did not obtain much benefit from the government’s package assistance and consultancy services, bank credits, allocation of raw materials, etc. They received only 8.14 percent of the benefits as compared to their population of about 13.4 percent. Only 4.4 percent of the industrial units were owned by Muslims, while 16.21 percent were owned by SCs. Their share in the allotment of industrial plots came to 6.69 percent.

Grant of Bank loans: There is evidence that India’s banks, both public and private, also discriminate against Muslims. According to the Sachar report, the average bank loan disbursed to a Muslim is two thirds of the amount disbursed to other minorities. “Some banks use the practice of identifying negative geographical zones on the basis of certain criteria where bank credit and other facilities are not easily provided”.

In terms of intending borrowers, the Muslims numbered 9.41 percent, but the actual disbursement of loans to them came to 3.73 percent. For SCs the intending borrowers were 20.7 percent and they received loans to the extent of 12.7 percent. The loans never extended one hundred thousand Rupees.

According to the Sachar report, Muslims in India have less access to education than other religious groups. As a result, the literacy rate among Muslims is only 59.1 percent while the national average is 64.8 percent. School enrollment among urban Muslims boys is only 80 percent, as compared with 90 percent of SC/ST boys. Only 68 percent of Muslim girls attend schools, while the figures for Dalit girls and girls categorized as non-Dalit are 72 percent and 80 percent respectively.

The gap between Muslims and the general average is greater in the urban areas and women. 25 percent of Muslim children in the 6-14 age group have either never attended school or have dropped out. Drop out rates among Muslims are higher at the level of primary, middle and higher secondary. The disparity in graduation attainment rates is widening since 1970s between Muslims and all other categories in both urban and rural areas. When it comes to higher education, the Muslim presence is even lower. The report says that in the elite Indian Institutes of Management (IIMs) and Indian Institute of Technology (IITs), the Muslim students constitute only 1.3 percent and 1.7 percent respectively, of the student body. In premier colleges only one out of 25 under-graduate students and one out of 50 post-graduate students is a Muslim. Only 3 percent of Muslim children among the school going age go to Madrassas.

70 percent of the Muslims live in villages and barely able to make ends meet and they are forlorn and rudderless. 150 million Indian Muslims live in a miserable existence; they are looked down upon by the dominant majority who are happy to see them in miserable condition. Not a semblance of care and concern for Muslims. As years passed the condition of the Muslims further deteriorated and they became hewers of wood and drawers of water.

This article will not be complete and I shall not be doing justice to subject I am dwelling in unless I discuss the communal situation in India and the perception of Indian Muslims in resolving the problem. The helplessness of the Indian Muslims is reflected in the statement of celebrated novelist Arundhati Roy who cried out: “It must be terrible for Muslims to be in India”. No one can deny that the odds against Indian Muslims are heavy; these have mounted, year after year. Justice Rajinder Sachar in his report on ‘Socio-economic Status of India’s 150 Million Muslims’ tabled in the Indian Parliament on 30 November 2006 conceded that “India’s Muslims are a socially deprived and victimized minority”. Indian Muslims has steadily declined and they have been reduced to a level, which has been worse than that of Scheduled Castes. Educationally, they are most backward; economically, they are at the bottom of the ladder; socially they are outclassed. Indian leaders claim that under Indian secularism no citizen can be discriminated. Still followers of the minority religions do suffer discrimination in practice in all walks of life. Eminent Indian intellectual Khushwant Singh rightly debunked Indian secularism ‘a big sham’. He warned the minorities ‘not to live in a fool’s paradise and believe in what was being told to them’. Here it will be sufficient to mention what is happening in occupied Kashmir even today and what happened in Gujrat only the other day.

The less is said about Indian held Kashmir the better. Kashmir is bleeding just because of India’s refusal to hold promised plebiscite under U. N. supervision to determine the status of Kashmir. Everyday innocent young Muslim boys are kidnapped by the Indian security forces and their dead bodies are found the next day lying in a street or in a valley or in a terrain. Young Muslim girls are also violated by the security forces. Where are the human rights?

According official report released on 26 March 2007 from Srinager, 42,147 persons died and 33,885 seriously injured in Kashmir during 1990-2007 because of violence. Human-rights organizations in Kashmir claimed the report as untrue. They claimed that the number of deaths is minimum double of the official figure. According to Jammu-Kashmir based Coalition of Civil Society, in Kashmir more than 80,000 people, excluding Army and Police personnel, lost their life because of valance. Kashmir Hurriat Conference leader Syed Ali Shah Jilani claimed that over 100,000 people lost their life in Kashmir freedom movement.

As a result of February 2002 riot in the India’s western state of Gujrat 5000 Muslims were killed (officially the Government of India acknowledged that 2000 Muslims were killed by the anti-Muslim pogrom in Gujrat) of which 122 brunt alive including a Muslim former member of the Indian parliament, 100,000 became homeless (Muslims were forced to live in 56 makeshift camps including one camp established within the Muslim graveyard in south Ahmedabad), 350 mosques were demolished, property worth of U.S. $ 500 million destroyed and 250,000 Muslims became destitute in 40 cities and 2000 villages. Still central government of India did not sack State’s Chief Minister Naarendra Modi, for failure to stop pre-planned violence to massacre Muslims and protect their life and property, which the central government could do exercising constitutional authority and take over state administration on law and order ground.

In fact there have been more riots in Free India than in the 150 years of British colonial rule. The governments, both at the Centre and States, irrespective of party affiliation, wake up only when disputes erupt, discontent mounts and riots occur but instead of solving the problem try to pacify it temporarily. To-date no officer was charge-sheeted for dereliction of duty, much less punished. They do little to win the confidence of the people by concrete measures, never candid to denounce communalism but play the gallery.

Not one of the recommendations of the commissions, set up after every riot, has been implemented by any government. All these measures have been merely palliatives to appease Muslims, rather than provide them any substantial protection, assistance or relief. What is more, every government has put the recommendations of every commission to the shelf. The situation is so bad that Justice V.R Krishna Iyer of the Indian Supreme Court lamented: “In all major communal riots, the members of the minority community have been invariable the worst suffers and they got no justice”. Neither the government or the commission and the courts have provided the Muslims any relief. In fact the political leaders and bureaucrats lack the will and determination to shun communal tension and establish communal harmony. It must be clearly understood that neither pious declarations nor half-hearted measures, however well meaning, are going to clear the mess.

Indian Muslim problem is not law and order problem, they are basically an outcome of economic malaise which turns into a political problem because of religious factor. In this regard the recommendations to improve the communal environment submitted by All-party 45 Muslim MPs to the Indian Government and later released to the press is noteworthy which interalia states:

1. The defense and protection of the minorities against violence should be the responsibility of the Central Government and to be treated as a national issue, and not simply as a law and order problem in the same manner as atrocities against Harijans are, through a constitutional amendment, if necessary.

2. The police force and the intelligence machinery must be purged of communal elements and restructured to provide due and effective representation to all communities. Special anti-riot task forces should be constituted both at the Central and State levels for exclusive deployment in riot situations. Until such forces are raised, the CRPF and BSF should alone be deployed and not state armed constabularies.

3. The record of senior police and executive officers should be screened for communal bias and for performance during communal disturbances and anyone suspected of communal bias should not be posted to sensitive districts. In such districts, there should be a proper mix of officers to generate all-round confidence.

4. If communal disturbances do not stop within 24 hours of the first loss of life, the Chief Minister must personally rush to and camp in the area till normalcy is restored. The D.M. and the S.S.P. should be held responsible and immediately suspended and replaced by a pre-selected team officers, known and tested for their efficiency, integrity and non-communal outlook and for commanding the confidence of the weaker sections.

5. The victims of the violence should be appropriately compensated for loss of life and limb, in accordance with a uniformly prescribed scale. All property, movable or immovable, lost or damaged, should be replaced or reconstructed at State expense. Compensation so paid should be recovered by imposing a punitive fine from those involved in the riot in inverse proportion to the loss suffered.

6. The criminal cases arising out of the communal disturbances should be expeditiously investigated by Central Intelligence Agencies and tried by Special Courts.

7. All militant and extremist organizations preaching communal hatred such as Vishwa Hindu Parishad and R.S.S. should be banned.

8. During the riot all newspapers and periodicals should be screened and malicious and mischievous writing should be dealt in accordance with the law. Rumors of wrong information should be officially contradicted on a daily basis. Detailed information about casualties, including the names of those killed, hospitalized and arrested should be published in daily bulletins in order to catch misinformation and to appraise the nation of the truth.

9. Text books should be screened and materials that preach hatred between communities be dropped from the books.

Other noteworthy recommendations suggested by Indian Muslims include arming the state to put the offender under detention under the Maintenance of Internal Security Act by appropriate legislation and censoring all such news and comments which inflame communal passions, if necessary by amending Indian Constitution. The recommendations also include the demand for special budgetary provisions for the development of the Muslims, like the Schedule Caste, in the Five Year Plan and to keep at least one Muslim representative in all appointment boards. Until now the Indian Government did not make any sincere effort to implement the recommendation by its senior citizens and MPs.

To sum up, what is happening to the Muslims in India is all part of a broader tendency towards curbing civil liberties and scapegoat cultural minorities in an aggressive effort to impose dominant Hindu nationalism on one of the world’s most culturally diverse societies. This is proved further by the fact that only in occupied Kashmir Urdu is the official state language. Urdu is discriminated in educational institutions although a sizable people of Bihar, Uttar Pradesh speak Urdu. More than fifty percent of the Indian Muslims have declared Urdu as their mother tongue according to census report and there is a tendency to systematically erode its influence from the society to de-link Muslims from their religious and cultural treasures. What is the way out of this impasse? Muslims of India must realize that they must make headway in education, science and technology. They must prove that there is no way for the dominant Hindu community to ignore them by making their services indispensable. This however they can do if they also make progress in the private sector as entrepreneurs, which I think is possible even without the help of Indian Government given their experience and expertise. There is also no meaning for Indian Muslims to wait for Government help and assistance. No doubt the future of Indian Muslims is bright provided they give emphasis to socio cultural and economic realities of Indian life and at the same time take a fresh look to the Indian national political scenario and work within pragmatic limits. *

*The writer is the Chairman of Islamic Information Bureau Bangladesh. The author is greatly indebted to Rafiq Zakaria for using his scholarly book Indian Muslims: Where Have They Gone Wrong?, Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan, Mumbai, September 2004.

Hakim Bey: Don't just survive while waiting for someone's revolution to clear your head
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NEW DELHI, January 30: Indian minorities protest against discrimination in different ways but on India’s Republic Day on Jan 26, when the downcast Dalits raised the Pakistan flag in Meerut, they elevated their protest to an unacceptable level and were immediately arrested.

It was for the first time that Dalits had come forward with such a mode of raising their voice because even after 58 years there is no substantial reduction in abuse and maltreatment they face. They feel so oppressed, and depressed, they thought the best way to get noticed was to unfurl the Pakistani national flag on the Republic Day of India.

On occasions like the Independence Day, Republic Day and birth anniversary of the Father of the Nation, Mahatama Gandhi, this sort of anti-national activity is not uncommon. Raising diatribes against the system, burning effigies and copies of the Constitution of India, are normal ways of protest.

On January 26, 2005, the Republic Day of India, some Sikhs were arrested in Amritsar for hoisting the ‘Sikh Flag’ as a protest against the Indian system. Eight activists of the Dal Khalsa International were arrested under various charges, including sedition. Similar protests were also reported in the Northeastern States of India, apart from Jammu and Kashmir.

In Meerut, 60 kilometers Northeast of Delhi, two Dalits were arrested for hoisting the National Flag of Pakistan at the Ambedkar Park. They were demanding separate homeland for Dalits on the same argument as that of Pakistan.

The two arrested persons, Vijay Singh and Amit told the police that they hoisted the Pakistan flag because they consider Pakistan to be better than India. He said that the Dalit leader Bhimrao Ambedkar was elected to the Parliament by the help of Quaid-e-Azam Mohammed Ali Jinnah, which is why Dalits are natural allies of the Pakistani people.

Another Dalit, Amit was arrested for putting up posters in which Pakistan Zindabad (long live Pakistan) was written. Amit said that Indian polity is based on Brahaminical values, and Dalits are still a slave class. That is why a separate homeland is needed for Dalits, he said.

Dalit activist and Professor of the Jawahar Lal Nehru University, Surinder Singh Jodkha told the South Asia Tribune: “Such incidents are the manifestation of alienation and frustration. I cannot say that Dalits are safe in Pakistan or not. This is not the main question. The main question is if the Dalits are safe in India or not”.

“India is a democratic country, but Dalits are the most deprived class. They do not even have the right of franchise. In some of the areas, the upper classes decide to which candidate the Dalits would vote,” he said.

Jodkha said: “Dalits face ‘social apartheid’ even after 58 years of Independence. In fact, atrocities and violence against them have increased. Such violent incidents are on the increase in the Hindi-speaking belt, such as Uttar Pradesh, Bihar, Rajasthan, Haryana, Madhya Pradesh. But you will be taken aback when you will know that Punjab has surpassed all the Indian States as far as maltreatment with Dalits is concerned.”

According to a report of the Social Justice and Empowerment Ministry, out of the 22,066 registered cases of atrocities against Dalits Madhya Pradesh had 5,087; Uttar Pradesh 1,778; Rajasthan 5,241 but Punjab had 6,771. The victims were mostly the agricultural laborers who have migrated to Punjab from Bihar and Uttar Pradesh. But some of the Punjabi Dalits are known as Balmiki Sikhs who are also maltreated by Jat and Khatri Sikhs.

Ironically, Balmiki was a saint poet who had composed the epic Ramayana. Initially, he was a dacoit and known by the name of Ratnakar. He was a Shoodra, a lower caste person. But after the enlightenment, he set out for penance. He was so engrossed in the meditation, that balmikis (white ants) made home on his body. Hence, his name became Balmiki.

Religion is the easy target for the religiously and socially distressed people. In the Hindi-speaking belt, Dalits denounce Hinduism, and embrace Buddhism. But in Punjab, they denounce Sikhism, and found their own religious belief, apart from setting separate Gurdwaras for themselves.

In May 2004, one Baba Piyara Singh Bhaniyarawala and two others, Balbir Singh and Ramphal, were arrested by the police of Sirhind for disrespecting the Guru Granth Sahib.

Surinder Singh Jodkha says that the Dalits of the Doaba sub-region of Punjab hardly resemble their counterparts elsewhere in India. While they do not mind being identified as a scheduled caste, some of them dislike being called Dalits.

He says: “Despite the fact that very few among them own agricultural land, a large majority of them live in well-built brick houses and there would be hardly any lower caste family whose children did not go to school. Many of them have urban jobs and at least one person from every alternate household is abroad, either somewhere in the west or in the Gulf.”

“But some people are now having sympathy for Baba Piyara Singh and the like, because they are not allowed to enter the Gurdwaras built by the Jats. Many of them have built their separate Gurdwaras, but some of them go to the extent of sacrilegious outbursts,” he added.

Dalit Gurdwaras are locally known as ‘Ravidas Mandir’. Their structure is more or less look like a Sikh Gurdwara. The only major difference is that beside the Sikh holy book, the Dalits also keep a picture of Ravidas and Balmiki. They also keep photographs of Dr. Bhimrao Ambedkar.

However, the report of the Ministry says that in most of the cases, accused persons are released due to lack of evidence. This is the main reason of their resentment. During the last year, Indian courts passed decrees in 20,781 cases and only in 2,694 cases, the accused persons were punished. 18,087 cases were withdrawn due to pressure on the complainants.

Social Justice and Empowerment Minister, Meera Kumar told the South Asia Tribune: “There are about 140,000 cases of atrocities against Dalits pending in various Indian courts. Justice is delayed for the victims and they feel alienated and frustrated. I know well that the situation of Punjab is not better than other States. Frankly, in some cases, it is worse.”

“The Meerut incident should be an eye opener for everybody. We should try to understand the root cause of such incidents. Realizing the failure in the amelioration of the poor condition of Dalits, we are coordinating with the Human Rights Commission, Schedule Caste Commission, Schedule Tribe Commission, National Commission for Women and National Commission for Scavengers,” she added.

Hakim Bey: Don't just survive while waiting for someone's revolution to clear your head
Napoleon Bonaparte: The world suffers a lot, not because of the violence of bad people, but because of the silence of good people!

Hakim Bey: Don't just survive while waiting for someone's revolution to clear your head
Napoleon Bonaparte: The world suffers a lot, not because of the violence of bad people, but because of the silence of good people!

What followed was the gruesome rape of 700 innocent muslims by Hindutva Butchers, where the name Kasab originates from.

State Sponsorship of Terrorhttp://www.glocaleye.org/gujurat.htmThe most egregious dimension of the riots in Gujarat has been the complicity of the government in the massacre of nearly 700 Muslims. Gujarat, a state ruled by Hindu nationalists, has experienced retaliatory attacks against Muslims and their property. Nearly 700 have been killed of which over 100 have been burnt alive in their homes. Muslim shops and homes have been burnt and robbed while police officers have stood and watched. BBC news crews have been filming parts of the looting and arson and it is amazing how police officers just stood by grinning as Hindu fanatics went about expressing their religious fervor. Even kids felt emboldened to go out and indulge in indiscriminate looting of property.

While what happened at Ghodra can be blamed as an intelligence failure (if it was a premeditated crime) or as a surprise if it was a spontaneous act of evil. In the first case the authorities must be held partially responsible but if it was unexpected they cannot be blamed. But what happened in Gujarat for three entire days was expected. India does not have civil society.

A train carrying hindus to a hindu temple, that was built by demolishing a muslim masjid some ten years ago, was set on fire on Feb. 26, 2002. That incident caused killing of around 50 hindus.

Hindus blamed that muslims were responsible for the incident. However, bharti supreme court, later, ruled that fire on train, that were carrying hindus, was accidental, and there was no proof of muslim involvement.

But, no muslim excuse was accepted then, and around 5000 muslims were massacred and more than 50,000 were made homeless, in gujrat in the pretext of revenge by hindus.

Hundreds of muslims were burnt alive. Hundreds of Masajids were destroyed. Muslim’s shops, homes and properties were looted, robbed and burnt down to the ground.

It was an act of evil. Mr. Bush, on January 29, 2002, declared Iran, Iraq and North korea as axis of evil in the pretext of 911 in which around 3000 innocents were killed, but there was no Bush or other courageous human being on the surface of earth who could be able to declare these criminals, who massacred more than 5000 muslims, as “axis of Evil”.

Mr. Bush immediately went Afghanistan and Iraq to “eliminate terrorism” but never showed any intention to go Bharat and eliminate terrorism in Kashmir, Gujrat, and etc.

that’s why this is the belief of muslims worldwide that the war on terror is solely against muslims and not against terrorists.

The Govt of the biggest democracy and champion of freedom and human rights, completely failed to protect the lives of muslims and their properties.

Even, the biggest democratic govt blocked tv channels that aired secretly recored footages of the incident. The cable operators in Ahmadabad received written orders by the state govt to block certain tv channels that showed interviews and footages of the incident.

They say “this is democracy and hope.”

"Muslims breed like rabbits and their population would soon overtake that of the Hindus. Until now, we Hindus had been moderate in our demands but now we will be demanding all the 30,000 masjids." Rajmohan Gandhi, Hindustan Times, July 4, 2003.

Hakim Bey: Don't just survive while waiting for someone's revolution to clear your head
Napoleon Bonaparte: The world suffers a lot, not because of the violence of bad people, but because of the silence of good people!

December 6, 2002, a frenzied mob of hindu terrorists demolish the Babri mosque.Done, the Hindindu terrorists achieved their goal, without any resistance by the opressed muslims of Mumbai (then Bombay).

Then what triggered the mass massacre of muslims soon after? Perhaps Militant agency RAW could shed some light.

Babri mosque judicial inquiry makes a mockery of justiceBy Murtaza HaiderHindu fanatics have intensified their efforts to erect a temple on the site of the Babri Mosque in Ayodhya that was destroyed by a Hindu mob six years ago. Krishan Lal Sharma, a spokesman for the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) said on June 16 that if the court ruling went against construction of the temple on the mosque site, the government will change the law through parliament.

Basudev Acharya, a communist member of the Indian parliament was quoted by the Press Trust of India on June 13: 'The temple is being constructed in pieces, with stone-cutting going on in a planned manner.' A week earlier, prime minister Atal Behari Vajpayee had denied any knowledge of such activity. But Indian duplicity is legendary.

The judicial inquiry into the destruction of the sixteenth century mosque, meanwhile, is getting nowhere. Session judge Jagdish Prasad Srivastava heading the judicial probe in Lucknow, has had little success in bringing the culprits to justice. In the past eight months, Srivastava has failed even to get the accused to appear before his court. His last summons for a May 22 court appearance was contemptuously dismissed by the accused. The hapless court is no match for the ruling godfathers in India, who were responsible for the destruction of the mosque in the first place. In December 1992, Hindu fanatics of the now ruling party, the BJP, and its allies Shiv Sena and Vishwa Hindu Parishad (VHP), razed the monument to the ground. Leading the mob were the central leadership of the BJP and Shiv Sena. The Hindu extremists contend that the Babri mosque was built on the site where the Hindu god Rama was born. Lal Krishna Advani, home minister in the BJP government, coined the slogan: 'We will construct our temple at the very place where Ram was born.' Two other temples in Ayodhya already claim to be the sites of Rama's birth!

Riding on a rath - a replica of Ram's horse-driven buggy - Advani and others led the mob to the Babri mosque and demolished it. The Hindu mob then went on a communal frenzy killing more than 3,000 Muslims across India. In Ayodhya and other cities, thousands of Muslim properties were destroyed. More than five years later, displaced Muslims are still living in shanty camps. Successive Indian governments have paid scant attention to the legitimate demands of victims for compensation. It is highly unlikely that the court in Lucknow will be able to do any better. Accused are Advani and two colleagues in the central cabinet - Murli Manohar Joshi and Uma Bharati - along with other 46 rightwing Hindu fascists.

The BJP leaders have defied summons from the court repeatedly over the last eight months. Judge Srivastava, however, framed criminal charges against them following a Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) charge sheet. They have been charged with dacoity, defiling a place of worship, and promoting enmity on the basis of religion.

Some of the accused in the Babri mosque case have filed a review petition in the Allahabad High Court challenging the session court's summons. They contend that the CBI has not named any individual directly for the mosque demolition. They also contend that Advani and Kalyan Singh (then chief minister of Uttar Pradesh state) 'had promised the construction of a temple, not the destruction of the mosque.'

These arguments are preposterous and absurd. Both Advani and Bal Thackeray, a Shiv Sena leader, have been captured on video inciting Hindu zealots to destroy the mosque. The temple could not be built without destroying the mosque.

The courts have become a refuge for right-wing extremists in India. The high courts have issued controversial stay orders against inquiries into the mosque's destruction. Earlier M S Liberhan was appointed to inquire into the role of Kalyan Singh and UP state bureaucrats in the Babri mosque destruction and its gory aftermath. A stay order from a higher court ended the inquest. The courts have subsequently rejected all attempts to lift the stay order, thus preventing any investigation of the Hindus' crime. With the BJP now in power, it is highly unlikely that those responsible for the desecration will ever be brought to justice. The court proceedings at Lucknow are just a smoke-screen to prevent a backlash from the minority Muslim community who still believe that they will be compensated for the loss of life and property.

It is not the first time that an inquiry into the massacre of innocent Muslims has failed to identify the culprits. In February 1983, 1,800 Muslims were slaughtered by the 'fighters' of Assam Gana Parishad (AGP) in the hamlet of Babri Islambasti (Nellie), 70 kilometres from Guwahati. The courts took notice of the massacre and took up 11 suo motto cases. Two years later, when the AGP came to power in Assam in 1985, the courts dropped all eleven cases. The only official response to the murders of 1,800 Muslims was the suspension of two junior police constables. Meanwhile, Hindu zealots are busy constructing parts for the temple to be moved to the Babri mosque site at a suitable date. Some 52 of the planned 212 pillars have already been constructed at a workshop located a few kilometres from Ayodhya. Stones for the temple are being excavated at Tindwara, Rajastan. The BJP leadership is waiting for the right moment to order construction of the temple at the mosque site. It appears that the temple will be made of prefabricated material, ready to be assembled over night.

The mass murderers of Babri Islambasti have been wandering free for after 18 years. Little more can be expected of the judicial inquest into the desecration of the Babri mosque and subsequent massacres of Muslims. Is it too much to expect justice from a Hindu court?

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From June 3-6, 1984, the Indian government brutally invaded the Golden Temple and 125 other Gurdwaras around Punjab. Over 20,000 people were killed in these attacks, including such Sikh leaders as Sant Jarnail Singh Bhindranwale, who was the strongest spokesman for Sikh rights and Sikh freedom. More than 100 young boys, ages 8 to 13, were taken outside into the courtyard and asked whether they supported Khalistan, the independent Sikh homeland. When they answered with the Sikh religious incantation “Bole So Nihal,” they were summarily shot to death. The Guru Granth Sahib, the Sikh holy scripture, handwritten in the time of the ten Sikh Gurus, was shot full of bullet holes by the Indian military. Sant Bhindranwale warned that if the Indian government invaded the Golden Temple, it would “lay the foundation stone for Khalistan” and it did.

U.S. Representative Dana Rohrabacher (R-Cal.) has said that for the minorities such as Sikhs and Kashmiris “India might as well be Nazi Germany.”

· Over 250,000 Sikhs murdered since 1984.

· 52,268 Sikh political prisoners, according to the Movement Against State Repression

· 35 Sikhs arrested for raising the Sikh flag and making speeches on January 26

· More than 50,000 Sikhs disappeared in Indian government’s secret cremations. Their remains have never been given to their families.

· Indian government paid over 41,000 cash bounties to police to kill Sikhs

· Gurnihal Singh Pirzada, a senior officer in the IAS, arrested after allegedly being seen at a meeting of gathering of Punjab “dissidents.” Pirzada denies attending such a meeting, but points out that it would not be illegal if he did.

· Gurdev Singh Kaunke, former Jathedar of the Akal Takht, highest Sikh religious leader, murdered by police official Swaran Singh Ghotna, who has never been punished.

· The Indian newspaper Hitavada reported that the Indian government paid the late Governor of Punjab, Surendra Nath, the equivalent of $1.5 billion to foment and support covert state terrorist activity in Punjab and Kashmir.

“The mere fact that they have the right to choose their oppressors does not mean they live in a democracy.” – Rep. Edolphus Towns (D-NY)THE REPPRESSION CONTINUES WHILE INDIA PROCLAIMS ITS SECULARISM AND DEMOCRACY

Half a million Indian forces have been sent to Punjab, Khalistan to subdue the freedom movement there. Another 700,000 are deployed in Kashmir. They join with the police in carrying out the kinds of atrocities described on the other side of this flyer. India calls this “protecting its territorial integrity.”

In March 2000 in the village of Chithisinghpora, 35 Sikhs were massacred. Two studies of this massacre, one by the International Human Rights Organization, based in Ludhiana, and the other conducted jointly by the Punjab Human Rights Organization and the Movement Against State Repression, concluded that the massacre was the work of Indian forces, a conclusion supported by reporter Barry Bearak in the December 31, 2000 issue of the New York Times Magazine. In another village in Kashmir, Indian troops were caught red-handed trying to set fire to several Sikh houses and the local Gurdwara. Sikh and Muslim villagers joined together to stop this atrocity before it could be carried out. This past January, 35 Sikhs were arrested for raising the Sikh flag.

Sikhs ruled Punjab as an independent, secular country from 1765 to 1849. Sikhs have never accepted the Indian constitution. At the time of the transfer of power, Sikhs were equal partners who were to receive sovereignty along with Muslims and Hindus. When the Indian constitution was adopted in 1950, no Sikh representative signed it and no Sikh representative has signed it to this day.

On October 7, 1987, the Sikh Nation formally declared its independence from India, naming their new country Khalistan. Since then, Khalistan has been under illegal occupation by the Indian government and its forces.

“If a Sikh is not for Khalistan, he is not a Sikh.” – Professor Darshan Singh, former Jathedar of the Akal Takht

Unfortunately, Sikhs are not the only victim of India’s brutal tyranny.

· India has murdered over 300,000 Christians in Nagaland since 1947, more than 90,000 Kashmiri Muslims since 1988, and tens of thousands of other minorities

· Australian missionary Graham Staines and his two young sons were brutally murdered by being burned to death while they slept in their jeep by a mob of Hindu militants affiliated with the militant, pro-Fascist Rashtriya Swayamsewak Sangh (RSS) who chanted “Victory to Hannuman,” a Hindu god.

· An American missionary from Pennsylvania, Joseph Cooper, was expelled from the country after being so severely beaten by RSS goons that he had to spend a week in the hospital.

· In January 2003, an American missionary and seven other individuals were attacked

· Christian schools and prayer halls have been attacked and destroyed.

· A Christian religious festival was broken up by police gunfire.

· In March 2002, between 2,000 and 5,000 Muslims were brutally murdered in Gujarat. India’s National Human Rights Commission (NHRC), an official body, found evidence in the killings of premeditation by members of Hindu extremist groups and complicity by Gujarat state officials. A police officer confirmed to an Indian newspaper that the massacre was pre-planned by the government.

· The most revered mosque in India, the Ayodhya mosque, was destroyed by Hindu mobs affiliated with the BJP and a Hindu temple was built on the site.

· The states of Gujarat, Tamil Nadu, and Orissa have all passed bills barring religious conversions.

DEMOCRACIES DON’T COMMIT GENOCIDE.

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"..the Indian Army came here, massacred innocent Tamil civilians, raped our women and plundered our valuables. The acronym IPKF will always stand for Indian People Killing Force where we are concerned. We will one day erect a memorial in the heart of Jaffna town, in the centre of Hospital Road, in memory of all the innocent civilians – ranging in age from the very old past 80 to young children massacred by the IPKF and to the women who were raped." IPKF - Innocent People Killing Force, Dr. T. Somasekaram

"...as an Indian I feel ashamed that under the Indo Sri Lanka agreement, our forces are fighting with Tamils whom they went to protect...I believe that the Indian Government had betrayed its own culture and ethics...The guilt, therefore, rests entirely on those who sent them to do this dastardly business of fighting in Sri Lanka against our Tamil brothers and sisters..." India's former Foreign Secretary, A.P.Venkateshwaran, speaking in London in April 1988

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The government in Indian-controlled Kashmir has acknowledged that DNA samples taken from five men blamed for the masscre of 35 Sikhs two years ago were tampered with. Those responsible for collecting and sending the samples had something to hide

Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Farooq Abdullah Samples were taken from the men only after protests in Kashmir by local people who insisted they were innocent, and were deliberately killed by the security forces in a stage-managed encounter.

The Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Farooq Abdullah now says it appears that fake samples were sent suggesting "that those responsible had something to hide."

The killing of the 35 Sikhs took place just hours before the then US President Bill Clinton arrived in India and was one of the worst examples of violence in the territory in recent years.

It was highlighted by Delhi to support its accusations that Pakistan sponsors militant attacks in Kashmir. 'Mislabelling'

The state government ordered the samples to be taken from the dead men after protesters in Kashmir demanded an investigation into the affair.

The Sikh massacre led to big protests

Relatives of the dead men insisted their bodies be exhumed, saying that DNA tests would prove they were not foreign militants as claimed by the security forces.

But the laboratory in southern India to which the men's DNA samples were sent returned them, saying they were mislabelled and showed serious discrepancies.

It is not clear what errors were shown, but the Times of India newspaper said that some samples said to belong to female relatives in fact came from men.

In remarks to the Kashmir legislature on Friday, Mr Abdullah apologised for the injustice done and promised an investigation into the affair headed by a judge.

Mr Abdullah said fresh samples would be taken from the men's bodies.

'Encounter' allegation

At the time, the authorities insisted they were foreign militants from the Lashkar-e-Toiba and Hizbul Mujahideen groups - although the groups themselves denied any involvement in the Sikh massacre.

But allegations were made that they were in fact five local men picked up by the security forces and killed in a stage-managed encounter so they could be blamed for the massacre.

The Indian authorities have in the past been accused by human rights groups of summary killings and other abuses in Kashmir - charges the government always denies.

India has faced a militant insurgency in Kashmir since 1989.

Both India and Pakistan claim the territory as theirs.

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Do Hindu radicals have a program for expunging Christians from the region and reconverting tribals and pariahs to Hinduism?

BHUBANESHWAR, India (AsiaNews) - The campaign of attacks against Christians in Orissa was planned for months. This is the claim of Lenin Raghuvanshi, director of the People's Vigilance Committee on Human Rights. Mr. Raghuvanshi visited Orisa as part of of a fact-finding team for the European commission for the prevention of torture.

Speaking to AsiaNews, he says that "In the Kandhamal district, it is very clear that a cleansing of marginalized Christian populace is taking place by RSS, BajrangDal and VHP cadres (Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh, Bajrang Dal, Vishwa Hindu Parishad)."

The wave of violence has so far killed 61 people, injured 18,000, destroyed 4,500 homes, and burned and razed 181 churches. It was apparently motivated by the killing of Swami Laxamananda Saraswati, a leader of the VHP, last August 23. He was killed by a group of Maoists, but Hindu fundamentalist groups immediately accused the Christians of the assassination.

"In fact, on August 14," Raghuvanshi explains, "nearly 10 days before the death of Swami Laxamanada, a mob of RSS people came to Sahasipudar village and threatened the people of the perils of following the Christian faith . These extremists also warned the margnisalised Christian community that henceforth the Gita [editor's note: one of the sacred books of Hinduism] was their sacred book."

In Orissa, campaigns to reconvert Christian tribals and pariahs back to Hinduism date back for decades. The swami killed in August was himself a fierce promoter of this. Last December, on Christmas eve, he was the one who had pushed for new attacks against Christians, in which 13 homes were burned and 3 people killed, while thousands of faithful were forced to flee.

"After the December anti-Christian violence," Raghuvanshi says, "three families converted to Hinduism out of fear. It is most unfortunate, in a broken down church the picture of Swami Laxamandanda has been installed."

Mr. Lenin Raghuvanshi recently won the “Acha Peace Star” prize for his efforts for reconciliation among communities in India. Commenting further on the violence in Orissa and on his work with the fact-finding mission, he says: "We were witnesses to most deplorable and inhuman atrocities, most probably, these fundamentalists forces are whipping up communal frenzy with a view to the state elections scheduled next year. Here elections are won at the cost of human lives - how much lower can humanity stoop?"

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The Global Council of Indian Christians (GCIC), a major Indian advocacy group, told BosNewsLife there are indications that "six persons belonging to a Dalit Christian family" were killed late Monday, August 28, on a riverbank near Shivbigha village, located in the Palamau district of the Indian state of Jharkand.

It said militant Lalan Paswan of a nearby village, "along with his accomplices stormed the house of Ram Dinesh and [captured] all the seven family members, including four children."

GCIC, which has close contacts with local Christians in the region, said militants accused the family of "practicing voodoo" and dragged them "to the bank of the Sone river" where they disappeared.

BODIES DISSAPEARED

Palamau Police Superindent Udayen Kumar Singh reportedly said that the search for the bodies was ongoing. "Though the body was not found, the profuse blood stains at six different places on the river bank lead to the conclusion that the criminals might have killed these people and threw their bodies in the river" he was quoted as saying.

The apparent survivor, Ram Dinesh, is "undergoing treatment" in a local state hospital, GCIC said. Names and more details about the victims were not immediately released. The reported family massacre came shortly after five other Dalits were "lynched to death" in the northern Indian state of Haryana for skinning a cow, sacred to Hindus, GCIC added.

"Police and local authorities looked on while extremists massacred and burned the victims. They were lynched to death by a furious mob for skinning a cow..." in the Dulena area of Jhajjar district in Haryana state, well-informed GCIC President Sajan George told BosNewsLife.

EXPRESSING SHOCK

He stressed that his organization "expresses its shock and anguish at the brutal murder of five Dalits in the northern Indian state Haryana and six Dalits in Jharkhand" and that it has urged the Indian President to intervene.

"This is one of the most inhuman acts that have been carried out by the murderers in the name of religion and a mighty majority. We deplore such acts, which make the lives of innocent and poor people miserable by taking away the members of the family who earn their daily livelihood for the family."

Church groups and rights investigators have linked the attacks to growing frustration among Hindu groups about the spread of Christianity among Dalits, the lowest caste in India's ancient system of Hinduism and often described by militants as the "untouchables."

MORE INCIDENTS

However GCIC and other groups say Jesus Christ especially loves those viewed as outcastes by society. Besides Dalit Christians, other believers are reportedly persecuted. Among other reported latest incidents was news that on August 20, extremists burst into a church service of the Good Shepherd Community Church in Kolar district of Karnataka, beating the pastor and his assistant.

In Andhra Pradesh state, police on August 21, reportedly arrested a Catholic priest, Mathew Kunnel, for allegedly burning portraits of Hindu deities. Earlier on August 20 in the Mangaon area of Rewa district in another state, Madhya Pradesh, militants attacked a church service run bt Pastor Vijay Kumar of the Gospel Echoing Missionary Services congregation, Indian Christians said.

The troubles apparently began after the pastor started when one couple brought a sick five-year-old boy to the front of the church for prayer. Enraged by the continuation of the service, some of the extremists entered the hall, grabbed the young boy and twisted his arm while they shouted at the pastor, Christian news agency Compass Direct News reported.

THREATENING BLOODSHED

"Stop this now! Leave this place, or the next time there will be bloodshed," the Hindu militants were quoted as saying. The police reportedly later detained and interrogated Mourya to explain the activities of his congregation of roughly 50 members, news reports said.

There are concerns among mission groups that the violence will further increase following the adoption in several Indian states to prevent "forced conversions." Critics claim the legislation is used to make it more difficult for missionaries, church leaders and others to preach the Gospel. Evangelicals see preaching the Gospel to anyone interested, including those from other religions, as an integral part of their faith in Christ.

^ The police detained the Christians, and not the Hindutva Terrorists, very coincidental with militant techniques.

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22 May 2007 marked the 20th anniversary of Hashimpura massacre when 40 Muslims from Hashimpura, Meerut were killed in cold blood by the personnel of Provincial Armed Constabulary (PAC). Even by the gory standards of police brutality in India this episode stands out in many ways. Apart from the fact that 40 poor Muslims were shot-dead for being Muslims, it is the fight against the system, to get justice, stretched over 20 long years that makes the massacre even more heart-wrenching. As the victims and their families wait for justice, not a single accused has been convicted. Khabrein.info writes about the episode:

On that tragic day, May 22, the PAC personnel cordoned off Hashimpura — located in the middle of Meerut – and picked about fifty innocent Muslim men between the age group of 70 and 10 from three out of four lanes of the locality. The fourth lane inhabited by Hindu families was left. Nasir was one of them. Nineteen PAC personnel, under platoon commander Surinder Pal Singh, took about 50 Muslim youths, most of them daily wage labourers and poor weavers, in a PAC truck from Hashimpura to the Upper Ganga Canal in Murad Nagar, Ghaziabad, instead of taking them to the police station. They shot them dead in cold blood and threw their bodies into the canal. The PAC personnel then drove ahead in their truck to the Hindon Canal in Makanpur and shot dead several other Muslim youths they had taken with them. Two of the persons who survived the Hindon Canal massacre and managed to escape lodged an FIR at the Link Road Police Station. One of the four others who managed to escape the massacre at the Upper Ganga Canal filed an FIR at the Murad Nagar police station. [Khabrein.info]

The reality is that there were survivors of the carnage who faked death, managed to escape and lived to tell the tale. But they still are waiting for justice. Imagine what would have happened if there were no eye-witnesses.

Zulfikar Nasser, one of the survivors of Hashimpura Massacre, narrated the blood-curdling experience of seeing two persons being shot and thrown into the canal. “I was the third in line. I was pulled out of the truck and as I fell down, I was shot,” he said. The bullet hit him in the underarm. He feigned death by holding his breath. The PAC personnel threw him into the canal, said Nasser. He escaped, concealing himself in bushes. He heard relentless cries for help and sounds of bullet shots. “I could hear thuds after the bodies of 15 or 16 persons were thrown into water.” [TwoCircles.net]

Consecutive UP governments have turned a blind eye to the whole episode. The PAC personnel accused in the massacre are still on duty and carrying arms. The fact that 18 rifles used to kill the Muslims were later redistributed among the PAC personnel shows utter callousness on the part of the government. Moreover, subsequent governments over the years exploited the incident to send a ‘message’ to the Muslim community by deploying PAC in riot hit areas. It was manifested again during the communal riots in Aligarh last year when four Muslims were shot dead:

While the police have shrugged off allegations of targeting a particular community, the fact that all those killed or wounded by police firing were Muslims suggests more than mere coincidence. Senior police officers admit that all four fatalities, and most injuries, “were caused by single entry-exit wounds, probably caused by .315 or .303 calibre rifles that are standard issue for the PAC.��? All wounds were also above the waistlines of the victims, suggesting that the PAC were shooting to kill, rather than to disperse the crowd. [Kafila.org]

Sachar committee reported the low percentage of Muslims in the police force and this percentage goes down significantly in the case of PAC. It seems that it is fair game to kill Muslims as has been evident by recent killings in Hyderabad. Last year it was Bhiwandi, Vadodara, Delhi, Lucknow and Aligarh. Fellow blogger Adnan is justifiably angry at this growing trend of police bias against Muslims:

Water cannons, rubber bullets and tear gas are not considered. And when bullets are fired, they are hit at chests, never at legs. The argument of cops is often that in ’surcharged circumstances’ the firing becomes inevitable. Really! At least in the recent firing in Hyderabad, everybody is aware and we have seen on TV screens how people were targeted and murdered by this brute police force. [Inscribe]

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A very serious matter was brought to my notice recently. It appears that a large number of villagers from Devarpalli were shelled with hand-grenades, as they approached the SJ camp at Dornapal. Some of these villagers might indeed have been armed. Curiously enough, first defintive reports of this alleged massacre began to trickle into Raipur only three days later, on June 12, 2006. Following the incident the Konta-Dantewada sector of the national highway had been sealed by S.P.Os.

The casualty-figure is speculative. Speaking to the Times of India, the CM said that 'about 10 persons' died. Mr. Manish Kunjam, the local CPI (M) chief, alleges that more than 150 persons were killed. A local press-representative, who recently visited the spot, puts the figure at around 40. However, given the devaluation- not to mention dehumanization- of tribal life in mainstream media, bludgeoned as it is by the draconian Chhattisgarh Public Safety (Special) Act passed during the last Vidhan Sabha session and an all-pervasive sense of apathy in the state’s urban areas, any report would have been 'sanitized': "SPOs bravely defend Camp against marauding Naxalites".

According to one elected representative from this region, who visited the site two days after the Devarpalli Massacre, 'mutilated bodies were lying for as far as the eye could see'. The reason why he wishes to be unnamed is because he apprehends that now that he has seen what he has seen, there is every likelihood of him being targeted by the SPOs, who would conveniently shift the blame onto Naxalites. Not surprisingly, he has left for Hyderabad, and hasn't returned to his constituency since.

If what is alleged is true, then the Devarpalli Massacre is the first incident in post-independent India's history where the state has deliberately bombed its own civilian population. Even more troubling is the fact that an event of such magnitude has gone entirely unnoticed, and that there is no effort- on the part of the media or the intelligentsia- to investigate what really happened.

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India is the first country in the 21st century to have a massive genocide: 2,000 burned alive in 2002. In Kashmir this month, Indian soldiers shoot and kill an aging Kashmiri politician during a peaceful protest. Four years ago, a European priest and his son were burned alive by long-haired, saffron-clad Hindu religious workers. Welcome to secularism’s false prophet, a nation of rising religious extremism, two dozen raging freedom movements, all hidden under the mask of a colorful film industry that provides distraction for a troubled country.

WARNING: The report below contains some disturbing images, not suitable for children and sensitive readers.

The Face Of India Hidden From The World: There is a distinct lobby in United States and Britain that played a criminal role in fostering Indian terrorism. It did this by covering up Hindu terrorism against Christians, Muslims, Sikhs and low-caste Indians. Have you seen any of the below pictures published by any American or British newspaper or news service?

"These are the startling, barbaric, disgusting and agonizing facts about the massacres that happened in Gujarat against Muslims. You see them pleading and burning yet no restraint from the FUNDAMENTALIST mob or the DEMOCRATIC authorities....

"What happened in Gujarat was not a spontaneous uprising, it was a carefully orchestrated attack against Muslims"

Smita Narula Human Rights Watch

Introduction

“The minority Muslim community in the Gujarat state of India has become a victim of the worst ever ethnic cleansing exercise carried out by the ruling party’s militant arms during the last two months of March and April, 2002. Mass attacks by armed mobs time & again on the hapless minority neighborhoods in cities, towns & villages in most of the districts of Gujarat were carried out as per the long term & well prepared plan on the agenda of the Hindutva program. It is widely reported by all sections of the media that Gujarat is the laboratory for implementation of the Hindutva agenda & thereafter the same program is to be implemented in all other states of India on the way to creation of the Hindu Rashtra. All minorities are expected to be subservient & shall have to assume a 2nd class citizens’ role in the new compensation. During the last two months, the minority Muslim community has suffered loss of thousands of lives which include innocent men, women, children & infant babies as well as foetuses in the bellies of pregnant Muslim women. Most of the victims were brutally beaten up & doused with inflammable liquids & burnt alive. Many of the victims were charred to ashes.

A large number of victims’ remains are untraceable. There are a large number of missing persons’ list in each district of the state whose whereabouts are unknown even after two months. The properties of Muslims including their residential premises, shops, offices & factories were made targets by the rampaging mobs and looted and thereafter gutted in fire. More than 90% of the revenue earning capacity of the minority community right from the low income rickshaw pullers to multimillion businesses were destroyed. A large number of low income & below poverty line families are in the relief camps under horrible conditions with nowhere to go. The government administration & the police force have been at the best totally indifferent & at the worst directly in connivance with the attackers. As a matter of fact, the police have unleased a reign of terror under the guise of combing operations in the victimized minority neighbourhoods & have been systematically brutalizing the old & young alike not sparing the women & daily many scores of Muslim casualties due to police firing with direct hits on the head & chest are admitted in the hospitals. Many of them succumb to death.

On the other hand the majority attackers are flush with arms including swords & trishools & unlicensed firearms, explosive materials for crude bombs which is an open scent but no action whatsoever has ever been contemplated to disarm the majority community to establish peace & normalcy which is the oft repeated common goal of all parties concerned. Of course there are shining examples of secular & devoted officers in the government & the police department & also bold Hindu citizens but they can be counted on fingers. Thousands of vehicles were stopped on the roads & destroyed in fire. The riders who were unlucky to escape from the clutches of the attacking mobs were also consigned to flame & reduced to ashes.

Young women were isolated & gang raped & thereafter brutally tortured & murdered. Hundreds of places of worship, religious shrines & Islamic schools were attacked & destroyed. A partial list is attached herewith. An idea of the genocide committed & which is still not completely stopped, can be had from the contents of this website.

This is a crime against humanity & all the peace loving & rational enlightened human beings allover the world, not the least Hindu citizens of India need to be united & build up a strong world opinion and explore all possible avenues including political and judicial with the twin objectives of getting justice for the surviving victims of the minority community in Gujarat & to develop a consensus among the secular minded but staunch practicing Hindus of all strata of the Indian society & help them to united counter the fascist hindutva agenda in its tracks before it engulfs the whole of India into flames and internal civil war.”

Not even children were safe or forgiven

The state of Gujarat witnessed events of atrocities, looting, arsoning, misbehavior with Muslim ladies and burning of persons and properties belonging to minority Muslim community for about a week beginning from the evening of 27th February 2002. The cause behind this heinous act produced was the burning alive of 58 persons of Hindu community in the railway coach at Godhra which was not lid by Muslims as Forensic investigators has found that the fire started from inside the train, not outside as stated by Indian government. This act of burning is highly condemnable. Muslims also condemned it strongly with the demand to find out the real cause which took to this incident.

Following the above incident of Godhra, unchecked atrocities on Muslim community of Gujarat started and continued for about a week by cadres of VHP, Bajeang Dal, RSS, majority of antisocial elements aided by the BJP and the government of Gujarat.

Following the above incident of Godhra, unchecked atrocities on Muslim community of Gujarat started and continued for about a week by cadres of VHP, Bajeang Dal, RSS, majority of antisocial elements aided by the BJP and the government of Gujarat.

The mobs of attackers varying in numbers from 500 to 10,000 were made to spread in different areas of the city of Ahmedabad and outskirts. They were well equipped with sharp and lethal weapons, gas cylinders, highly explosive chemicals, petrol bombs, trucks, loading vehicles to carry armaments and all other amenities which could assist them in killing and burning of persons and devastating properties. The mobs were very accurately guided as to which places are to be attacked by BJP and the present government of India and Gujrat. They moved with a list of properties- houses, shops, industries and other business establishments- belonging to Muslim community, so that not a single property can be spared unattacked. At the same time Mosques and other religious institutions were were also put to heavy damage, fire or complete destruction. In all these incidents, police force was a mere spectator or they did not turn up at all.

Hakim Bey: Don't just survive while waiting for someone's revolution to clear your head
Napoleon Bonaparte: The world suffers a lot, not because of the violence of bad people, but because of the silence of good people!

This is the flag of Islam, for you cannot separate the Muslim league from Islam. Many people misunderstand us when we talk of Islam, particularly our Hindu friends. When we say this flag is the flag of Islam, they think that we are introducing religion into politics, A FACT OF WHICH WE ARE PROUD. Islam gives us a complete code. It is not only a religion, but it contains laws, philosophy and politics. It contains everything that matters to a man from morning to night. When we talk of Islam, we take it as an all embracing word.

- Quaid-e-Azam Muhammad Ali Jinnah (11th January 1938)

Let us go back to our holy book, the Quran. Let us revert to the Hadeeth and the the great traditions of Islam which have everything in them for our guidance if we correctly interpret them and follow our great Holy book, the Quran.

- Quaid-e-Azam Muhammad Ali Jinnah (6th March 1946)

"It is my strong belief, that there is no ideology which is more democratic, enlightened and progressive than Islam."

It all began in Godhra - or so the right-wing saffron combine (Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), Vishwa Hindu Parishad (VHP)and Bajrang Dal) and its government in Gujarat.

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Tales of horror abound. Said Salimbhai from Naroda, "We saw young women being raped and killed, pregnant women speared to death with their unborn children. People came with petrol cans, they exploded cooking gas cylinders in our houses. The police watched and when we pleaded for help, they told us to run away or we would be shot."

Rehmanbhai Shakhubhai, admitted in the Ahmedabad Civil Hospital said he lost three children in the attack and only his daughter, who was to get married on March 18, survived. "The Bajrang Dal came shouting 'Jai Sri Ram'. They burnt everything. Only my wife and daughter are alive," he said. Afsana, his daughter, sits on the bed, her head shaved, her hands burnt and her torso covered in bandages. "They set fire to my brothers after dousing them with petrol. I tried to save them but the mob surrounded me and I had to run away. Who will marry me now," she asked?

"I saw Jaideep Patel with a revolver, inciting crowds," said Mansuri Yusuf, an employee of the Ahmedabad Municipal Transport Services. "He said 'finish all the Muslims'. There were two Ahmedabad municipal corporators with him and a local criminal." Dr Patel, the Gujarat state VHP President has since denied this allegation.

"Even 10 days after the carnage, there was no help from the government. It is the Muslim community which has given us clothes food and shelter," said Yusuf.

Similarly, at the municipal school at Dariyakhan Gummat, survivors of another carnage say that only the Muslim community is helping the 5,000 people in the camp.

In Mora village, all 106 homes belonging to members of the Bohra community have been destroyed. "A mob looted my father's cycle shop and burnt my husband's tailoring shop. I managed to break the window of my house and run out. My family of 14 stayed in a small bathroom for three days. We had no food or water. I used to hit my children and tell them to stay quiet. I refuse to go back there -- we will be killed. What will we do now?" wept Farida Abbasi Boliwalla, whose family has incurred a loss of Rs 900,000 (1US$=Rs 48).

Another woman, preferring anonymity said that in the Godhra GIDC area, all factories of Muslims were burnt and looted in the presence of the police. There are several Bohra settlements in all parts of Panchmahals district where Godhra is located and the entire losses could amount to Rs 200 million, she said.

"The VHP also threatened the convoys which were escorting Muslims and tried to attack them. They threw stones and chased the trucks. They tried to burn my grandchildren but we managed to rescue them. They kept saying "Yahan se Muslim hatao" (Drive out all Muslims)," said 35-year-old Miriam Yakub Sayed.

The long-term plan to decimate the Muslim population is now becoming clear. A resident of Dekwa village of Halol taluka, a store owner, said three months ago meetings were held near Pawagadh, under the guise of social upliftment by the VHP and the Bajrang Dal. "Even at mohallas (street corners), secret meetings were held to tell people that the Muslims were their enemies," he said.

The Bajrang Dal has been paying people and giving them trishuls (tridents) to kill Muslims, adds the resident. "They tell Muslims that they will pay them Rs 5,000 not to offer namaz (prayers). Voters' lists have been used to identify and kill our people," he added.

Thirty km from Godhra, Sofia (name changed) had gone to celebrate Bakri Id at her mother's house in Randhikpur village. Their homes were burnt and a large group fled the village. They travelled from village to village and on the way to Panivela, the group, which had eight women including Sofia, were assaulted by upper caste people from her village who then gang raped her and other girls and left them on the road. She could name the perpetrators - they include a doctor, a lawyer and a local sarpanch (elected village head). She sat on the road for a day and a night before the police found her.

"When I recovered I was the only one alive, there was no one else. My mother was killed as well," she said. The 22-year-old can barely articulate her experience and she is in desperate need of counselling and help to recover from her trauma.

Sundarpur village in Mehsana district, has 700 homes of Muslims in a population of 3,500. The mob came on the evening of February 28 and started burning houses. "By the time the police came, everything was burnt. Their plan was very clear," said residents.

Hakim Bey: Don't just survive while waiting for someone's revolution to clear your head
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In fact, such is the widespread determination to produce only sons that, since ultrasound scans became widely available in the Eighties, the number of abortions carried out on female foetuses in India has risen at a terrifying pace.

Even by the most conservative estimates, sex-selective abortion in India now accounts for the termination of some ten million female foetuses over the past 20 years. That means that each year a staggering half a million girls have been prevented from being born.

The future is frightening. Over the next five years we could see more than a million foetuses eliminated every year, says Dr Sabu George

“Most Indian men don’t have opportunities for intimate contact with women until their mid-20s,” Gupta said. “For some of them, their only exposure to women in a sexual context has been in the virtual realms of Bollywood and Internet porn sites.”

For many women in India, the result can be terrifying.

In an incident that rattled the country, dozens of young men taunted and groped two girls as they left a New Year’s Eve party at a popular five-star hotel in Mumbai, formerly known as Bombay. An Indian newspaper photographer called the police and recorded the melee in a shocking series of photos that ran on the front page of almost every major newspaper in India, launching a flurry of editorials.

In a televised interview, the outraged chief of India’s ministry for women and child development called for the death penalty for those convicted of rape.

There have been several high-profile assaults recently against foreign women in India. A British freelance journalist allegedly was raped by the owner of a guesthouse where she was staying in northern India. A 28-year-old American tourist was groped by a Hindu priest while visiting a temple in the northwestern Indian state of Rajasthan.

Several Western embassies have issued warnings on the dangers women often face in India.

Hakim Bey: Don't just survive while waiting for someone's revolution to clear your head
Napoleon Bonaparte: The world suffers a lot, not because of the violence of bad people, but because of the silence of good people!

The persistent and vicious attacks against Christians in India have a Christian ministry leader who has been going into the persecution hotspot of Orissa state calling the violence “religious genocide.”

“This has been a religious genocide according to the U-N definition of genocide, where persistently and systematically it is planned and not stopped,” maintains Ramesh Landge, founder and director of Cooperative Outreach of India (COI), according to Mission Network News.

“It falls in that category of genocide, and we do agree with that.”

Landge, whose ministry works with U.S.-based Partners International, has been visiting the eastern state of Orissa, where the anti-Christian campaign is most fierce, to help the displaced Christians there.

More than 50,000 Christians have been displaced by the violence, and 30,000 of them live in relief camps while others hide in the jungles.

Since mid-August, over 4,000 Christian homes, churches and businesses have been destroyed by Hindu militant mobs. The number killed in the clashes, overwhelmingly Christian, range from 40 to nearly 100 depending on the source.

"There has been a lot of intimidation. There has been a lot of persecution. People have not been able to go back [to their homes],” Landge said. “If they do go back, the Hindu fundamentalists parties want them to reconvert."

But the ministry leader readily emphasized that although Christians have been suffering they have not renounced their faith and are continuing to stand strong as followers of Jesus Christ.

"This is the very first time in Indian history that such a long onslaught against Christians has taken place, and in a sustained way,” he observed. “In a way, the government was part of it. They never tried to stop it. They were just silent spectators.”

The global ministry Partners International, which supports local Christian ministries in the least Christian regions of the world, is trying to help provide relief items to the displaced, especially since winter is nearing, Landge informed.

He asks Christians elsewhere to help by praying for those being persecuted, advocating on their behalf in their respective countries, and donating to help physically ease the suffering of those being persecuted

Hakim Bey: Don't just survive while waiting for someone's revolution to clear your head
Napoleon Bonaparte: The world suffers a lot, not because of the violence of bad people, but because of the silence of good people!

The Movie "Water" is an eye opener of The Indian Scheduled Caste System - Brahmins Believe, as per Hindu Religion, that Widows are only good as Concubines.

The Real Face of India - Indian Widows

If a Indian husband dies, the widow is supposed to be burnt on the funeral pyre. Those who try to hide this fact as a chapter out of the past should visit the thousands of emergency centers around India which report hundreds and thousands of women with burn injuries. Widows who survive are incarcerated in temples and abused as prostitutes. According to the Indian civil rights activists more than 50 million widows spend their life in temples (jails) which sell them off as prostitutes.

Hakim Bey: Don't just survive while waiting for someone's revolution to clear your head
Napoleon Bonaparte: The world suffers a lot, not because of the violence of bad people, but because of the silence of good people!

- Behind every child born in india, There is ISI and Pakistan involved.
- There is excess salt in my chicken karahi .. i think ISI is involved
- I pissed three times today,, it is a conspiracy by ISI
- " My Girlfriend left me for an ISI Agent "

The Real Face Of India - They Love To Burn Brides.The Article, Chill of Kerosine, depicts the chilling tales of 25000 brides per year burnt in India.If there is ever a Kerosine sanction on Indians, their life will come to a complete halt.

A Prelude: Dowry in India

Definition Of Dowry :- Dowry or Dahej is the payment in cash or/and kind by the bride's family to the bridegroom' s family along with the giving away of the bride ( called Kanyadaan) in Indian marriage . Kanyadanam is an important part of Hindu marital rites. Kanya means daughter, and dana means gift. Dowry originated in upper caste families as the wedding gift to the bride from her family. The dowry was later given to help with marriage expenses and became a form of insurance in the case that her in-laws mistreated her. Although the dowry was legally prohibited in 1961, it continues to be highly institutionalized. The groom often demands a dowry consisting of a large sum of money, farm animals, furniture, and electronics.

The practice of dowry abuse is rising in India. The most severe in “bride burning”, the burning of women whose dowries were not considered sufficient by their husband or in-laws. Most of these incidents are reported as accidental burns in the kitchen or are disguised as suicide. It is evident that there exist deep rooted prejudices against women in India. Cultural practices such as the payment of dowry tend to subordinate women in Indian society.

Though prohibited by law in 1961, the extraction of DOWRY from the bride's family prior to marriage still occurs. When the dowry amount is not considered sufficient or is not forthcoming, the bride is often harassed, abused and made miserable. This abuse can escalate to the point where the husband or his family burn the bride, often by pouring kerosene on her and lighting it, usually killing her. The official records of these incidents are low because they are often reported as accidents or suicides by the family. In Delhi, a woman is burned to death almost every twelve hours . The number of dowry murders is increasing. In 1988, 2,209 women were killed in dowry related incidents and in 1990, 4,835 were killed . It is important to reiterate that these are official records, which are immensely under reported. The lack of official registration of this crime is apparent in Delhi, where ninety percent of cases of women burnt were recorded as accidents, five percent as suicide and only the remaining five percent were shown as murder .

According to Government figures there were a total of 5,377 dowry deaths in 1993, an increase of 12% from 1992. Despite the existence of rigorous laws to prevent dowry-deaths under a 1986 amendment to the Indian Penal Code (IPC), convictions are rare, and judges (usually men) are often uninterested and susceptible to bribery. Recent newspaper reports have focused on the alarming rate of deaths of married women in Hamirpur, Mandi and Bilaspur districts in the state of Himachal Pradesh.

[Note: Copious footnotes and supporting document references provided by the author had to be edited out due to constraints of length. Please email the author or visit the website he manages for more information. -- Ed.]Imagine a young Indian woman who just got married with all pomp and splendor in a grand event celebrated over several days by friends and family. Fresh flowers. Fine food. Fun. Frolic. Festivities. A beautiful bride with a full life in front of her -- a life filled with a rich mix of many joys, some setbacks and a few delightful children. Now imagine somebody pouring kerosene over her.

Kerosense makes her feel cold as it draws out the heat from her body. And then they set her on fire. Now imagine these murderous blazes flaring up 25,000 times a year...yes, that is your India Today.

In India each year thousands of innocent brides are burnt, killed or maimed in the prime of their lives by their in-laws because the father-of-the-bride is unable to meet the demands of dowry which keep on increasing after the wedding. The existence of this crime in an otherwise civilized country is a baffling paradox. The tragedy of dowry and bride-burning is one of the most brutal scourges of mankind. It is very different from domestic violence which stems from fits of rage between husband and wife. Bride-burning, however, is usually perpetrated by the mother-in-law, sister-in-law, husband, father-in-law or other relatives in the marital home of the victim. It is a calculated, cold-blooded murder. Unlike war criminals, those who burn brides wear no uniforms; they cannot be distinguished from other members of the community. After killing a bride, they continue their normal lives, attending religious festivals, maybe a religious gathering like Mata Jagaran, or a social event like a birthday party or, perhaps, another nice wedding. Their jobs or businesses do not suffer, nor do they suffer any social penalties. On the contrary, if the father of the victim raises his voice, he is ostracized as a troublemaker. A Dowry Prohibition Act (DPA) was enacted in 1961 in India. Notwithstanding the DPA, an undercurrent of tacit social approval of dowry and bride-burning continues in the dowry-infested areas of India, and the perpetrators seemingly feel no guilt when they burn a bride.

Numbers

The enormity of this crime may be perceived better if compared to the toll taken by land mines which has evoked world-wide understanding recently. In land-mine accidents, about 26,000 people are annually killed or maimed throughout the world, out of which about 80% are civilians (Human Rights Watch). Dowry and bride-burning kill or maim about 25,000 innocent brides every year in India alone (source: National Crimes Bureau of India). Geographical distribution

It is interesting to note that dowry and bride-burning is not practiced uniformly all over India. The table here shows the total number of deaths and the intensity (dowry deaths per million Hindu population) in different parts of India. (The figures are drawn from the statistics published by the National Crime Bureau of Government of India, which reports about 6,000 dowry deaths all over India every year. This is widely considered to be the result of gross under-reporting.) You can see from this table that there are no dowry deaths in Arunachal, Meghalaya, Manipur and other eastern states of India. There is no bride-burning in Assamese or Nepalese communities. The highest intensity of dowry deaths occurs in Delhi, closely followed by Punjab, Haryana, Uttar Pradesh, and other North Indian states. Maharashtra and Assam claim that the small number of dowry deaths in their states is contributed by settlers who came from the North.

A Brief History

The history of bride-burning is very sketchy and scanty. There is no mention of bride-burning in the ancient Vedic period or in the epics of Ramayana or Mahabharata (3rd to 1st millennium BC).

As the practice of Jowhar Vrata continued (1193-1526), burning of women possibly became an acceptable scenario apropos for revival of Sati. Whether the social circumstances leading to Jowhar Vrata contributed towards activation and proliferation of child marriage, dowry and Sati need to be researched.

When the Mughal rule started in India in 1526, Sati was in full force, as evidenced by the recorded efforts of Emperor Humayun (1508-1556) and his son, Emperor Akbar (1542-1605), to stop the evil practice. At the beginning of British period in India (1757-1947), Sati was still in vogue. Any effort to stop Sati was criticized as interfering with religion and as an attempt to destroy the foundations of Indian society. Raja Rammohun Roy (1772-1833) carried a crusade against Sati.

The differences between Sati and Bride-Burning are obvious. Sati takes place at a public cremation ground, and its planning is known before the incident. Thus, it is possible to send soldiers to surround the cremation ground, arrest those who attend the Sati, and save the potential victim's life. Trials of the criminals are comparatively straightforward, as the evidence against them is rather obvious. These factors must have contributed to Lord Bentinck's success.

The burning of a bride in modern times, however, takes place in the secrecy of her kitchen. No one knows when or where it will happen, or to whom. By the time others learn of the event, the victim is already a charred body. There is no evidence; there are no witnesses. Prevention is almost impossible. Conviction in a court of law is difficult and rare.

Causes, and Some Exceptions

Efforts to assign direct economic reasons (economic value of women, demand and supply, and other economic forces) to the practice of dowry and bride-burning are negated by the fact that, thanks to female infanticide, feticide and selective abortion with modern sonar test, the number of women are less than men in the dowry-infested areas of India, compared to eastern states like Meghalaya, Manipur where women outnumber men.

The notion that education will eradicate dowry and bride-burning is also disproved by the fact that people with lesser education like tribal communities in various parts of India have lesser of the evil. The intensity of dowry and bride-burning is most rampant in the area of highest education and greatest economical prosperity: Delhi and New Delhi, the capital of India.

Many activists are too quick to blame "male supremacy" and Hindu scriptures like Manu Samhita as the cause of dowry and bride-burning. A conspicuous exception is the Assamese Hindu community, which still carries the burden of male supremacy and Manu Samhita, but they have neither widow burning (Sati) nor the practice of dowry and associated bride-burning. In the geographical distribution of dowry death cases, we have observed that dowry and bride-burning is most rampant in north India. People of north India have carried the practice of dowry to their new homes in UK and USA. A striking exception is South Africa. There is no dowry among the north Indians who immigrated to South Africa about 150 years ago. These exceptions need to be researched in great depth. The solution to the problem may be hidden behind these exceptions.

In the dowry-infested areas of India, dowry and bride-burning is a very complicated problem sprouting from unidentified seeds in history on a ground mixed with old practices of caste, joint family, tradition, male supremacy, scriptural aberrations like kanyadan (donating a daughter), gotra (patrilineal dynasty), misunderstood values like "family honour" and "save the marriage", to name only a few.

How it Happens

In India, most marriages are arranged. In selecting a mate for their son, parents consider education, financial status and character, but the most important factor is the caste, the bastion of Indian culture. No other factor can surpass the predominance of caste in arranged marriages. After the wedding, a bride goes to live in her husband's joint-family, another citadel of Indian culture. The joint-family consists of her husband's parents, brothers (married or unmarried) and unmarried sisters. In many cases, the entire family of her father-in-law's brother is included in the joint-family. All live on the same premises.

It appears to be a tradition in the dowry-infested areas of India that permits a groom's father to demand that the bride's father pay a dowry (a large sum of money and other recompenses), as a consideration of the marriage. In these areas of India, the father of the bride is subordinate to the father of the groom and obliged to pay dowry and all other wedding expenses. Male supremacy in Hindu culture, where a son is more coveted than a daughter, is seen as the cause of dowry, but there are exceptions. However, male supremacy is conspicuous in the belief that only a son, and not a daughter, can perform the last rites (death rituals) of the parents.

Dowry negotiations are all verbal, and the demands keep on increasing as the wedding day approaches. Thus, the father of the bride inevitably falls behind the required payments, which invariably continue beyond the wedding date. The father of the bride rarely receives any support from other members of the community.

The tradition of dowry is so powerful in the dowry-infested areas in India that even in the rare cases where young couples fall in love and embark on an 'un-arranged' marriage, they concede that their parents should exchange dowry. In most of the cases, however, the young groom dumps his girl friend and goes to marry someone else arranged by his father with a guarantee of a bigger dowry.

In 1961, under the leadership of the late Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru, the Parliament of India declared the practice of dowry illegal by passing a law called "Dowry Prohibition Act". But the tradition is so strong that the law could not eliminate the practice. Dowry has continued in secret and in full force, escalating apace with rising consumerism and the enormous power of black money in India.

No Place to Go

In this fire storm of greed and avarice, the innocent young bride becomes vulnerable and insecure within her husband's joint-family. Once her father fails to remit the outstanding dowry installment, she becomes an object of taunts and torture. She walks a perilous terrain similar to a mine field, with no certainty when and where death will strike. She knows her life is in danger, but she has nowhere to go.

Her own parents refuse to take her back for a number of reasons, the most important of which is the 'family honour'. In India, it 'looks bad' if a married daughter returns to her father's home after marriage. Her father is still in the financial bind of her dowry and wedding expenses. Moreover, he cannot openly accuse the in-laws of his daughter for increasing their demand. According to the Dowry Prohibition Act, the dowry giver is equally punishable as the dowry taker, and the father-of-the-bride will go to jail for the offence of giving the original dowry. Very often, the father-of-the-bride persuades his daughter to return to her husband's family. The bride rarely receives any protection from her father.

The tradition to uphold 'family honor' and to 'save the marriage' is very strong in India. Even the officials in shelter homes and police stations persuade the brides to return to the perpetrators. Most brides are killed after they return to their perpetrators.

Failure of Existing Shelter Homes

The existing shelter homes for women in India are shared by females who are forced into destitution for all kinds of reasons: disease, old age, sheer poverty, mental problem and abandonment. The running conditions in these shelters are so despicable that, in the First International Conference on Dowry and Bride-Burning in India, held at Harvard University in 1995, attorney Rani Jethmalani and attorney Subhadra Chaturvedi commented, "A bride would prefer to die at the hands of her in-laws than to move to such a shelter."

There is a fundamental truth in this comment. A bride is very different from a destitute person. She is young, she is at her age of procreation, full of hope, faith and love. Together with her husband, she hopes to build a family. She has a strong faith that she will be able to win everyone with her love, and she does not want to give up that faith. Even when she knows her life is in danger, she hopes that everything will turn out all right. She cannot just move to a shelter. In her mind, shelters are for destitute women, and she is not a destitute. It is impossible for her to break her mental barrier and to go to a shelter shared by destitute women.

If their ancestors did it before them, surely they'll pass it on to their decendants.If they believe it's advocated in their religion, and not criminal, obviously they won't feel guilt or remorse while lighting a female up.

This is The Real Face of India - Pioneers of Terrorism.Every nation, every race, every religion, that tries to stop the Hindutva terrorists from carrying on their criminal activities, is a militant in their eyes.

Hakim Bey: Don't just survive while waiting for someone's revolution to clear your head
Napoleon Bonaparte: The world suffers a lot, not because of the violence of bad people, but because of the silence of good people!

This is the flag of Islam, for you cannot separate the Muslim league from Islam. Many people misunderstand us when we talk of Islam, particularly our Hindu friends. When we say this flag is the flag of Islam, they think that we are introducing religion into politics, A FACT OF WHICH WE ARE PROUD. Islam gives us a complete code. It is not only a religion, but it contains laws, philosophy and politics. It contains everything that matters to a man from morning to night. When we talk of Islam, we take it as an all embracing word.

- Quaid-e-Azam Muhammad Ali Jinnah (11th January 1938)

Let us go back to our holy book, the Quran. Let us revert to the Hadeeth and the the great traditions of Islam which have everything in them for our guidance if we correctly interpret them and follow our great Holy book, the Quran.

- Quaid-e-Azam Muhammad Ali Jinnah (6th March 1946)

"It is my strong belief, that there is no ideology which is more democratic, enlightened and progressive than Islam."

As per Web Master's request, I've edited one image of a burning nun, with a report from CNN (U-Tube link) above.

Well, now that you know about the August 2008 and earlier August 2006 genocide of Christians by Hindu Millitants.I seemed to have missed another grim history, December 2007, during Christmas celebrations, how coincidental.

POLICE reinforcements were rushed to the Indian state of Orissa yesterday after Hindu mobs burned down 15 Christian churches in the worst outbreak of religious violence in the areasince Australian missionary Graham Staines and his two sons were burned to death eight years ago.

"The situation is desperate and there is fear and anxiety among Christians," the Reverend Raphael Cheenath, Archbishop of Bhubaneshwar, the state capital, told reporters.

A report in the respected newspaper The Hindu described the situation in the worst affected areas as "a virtual war zone".

As curfews were imposed in those areas, the state's Chief Minister, Naveen Patnaik, made an urgent appeal for calm.

A former close associate of Mr Staines was quoted as saying that the violence showed "the same hatred and trouble is brewing again".

Most of the violence took place in the Kandhamal district 250km west of the capital, after members of the state's 800,000-strong Christian community tried to put up a decorative Christmas arch.

About the same time there was an as yet unexplained attack on a leader of the Vishwa Hindu Parisha, which has been leading a campaign against conversions to Christianity in the state, and clashes immediately erupted across a large part of the district, with Catholic as well as Baptist and Pentecostal churches coming under attack.

"Within minutes, a group of people with sticks and knives pounced on the group making preparations for Christmas."

Soon, according to local reporters, 15 shops had been looted and burned and Christian churches were under attack from a mob screaming "death to all Christians".

Priests and Christian worshippers were bashed, and there was an unconfirmed report of one death.

Orissa director-general of police Gopal Nath said armed police were being rushed to the area. "The situation is tense but we are trying to get back in control," he said.

At a time when millions across India - members of the dominant Hindu religion as well as adherents of Christian and other minority faiths - have been celebrating Christmas, the outbreak of violence in Orissa is embarrassing to the strongly secularist Government in New Delhi.

The state of Orissa remains a hotbed of anti-Christian and anti-conversion ferment eight years after Mr Staines and his two sons, Philip and Timothy, were burnt to death in their station wagon in an atrocity by religious extremists that remains seared in Indian consciousness as one of the worst acts of bigotry in the country's history.

One of Mr Staines's former co-workers in Orissa, Subhankar Ghosh, told Indian newspapers "the current incidents in Orissa bring back the horrific memories of 1999" when the Australian missionary and his sons were killed.

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Napoleon Bonaparte: The world suffers a lot, not because of the violence of bad people, but because of the silence of good people!

"If a man of inferior caste tries to sit down on the same seat as a man of superior caste, he should be branded on the hip and banished, or have his buttocks cut off." -- Manusmrti 8:281.

The above vesrse from Hindu Religious Books is a prime example and very relevant to comprehend their hatred towards the Christians.Christians in India were Dalits, or untouchables, and to evade oppression, converted to Christianity, which the Hindu Militants refuse to accept.Anyone of a lower caste is primarily supposed to serve the upper caste, even sexually.

This is The India today:

Anti-Christian Hate Campaigns Fuel Persecution in India

(September 25, 2007) The Washington, DC based human rights group, International Christian Concern (ICC) http://www.persecution.org has learned that Hindu extremist groups have actively been campaigning against Christians for close to a decade, yet there is little the government has done to check what continues to fuel India’s worst incidents of religious persecution.

Often, reporting on Christian persecution in India tends to focus on the incidents, and not the causes, of persecution. Rarely do we see the big picture – that Hindu ultra-nationalists who believe that to be Indian means to be Hindu are taking advantage of the uneducated and waging a hate-filled propaganda campaign against Christians.

Most recently, Hindu extremist groups Bajrang Dal and Hindu Jagruti Samiti distributed thousands of anti-Christian leaflets in Chitradurga district in the southern state of Karnataka last month. This campaign resulted in an incident on August 5, when at least 50 extremists attacked more than 10 workers of the Seventh Day Adventist church during the dedication of a new church in Sira area between Tumkur and Chitradurga districts. On August 16, the victimized Christian workers were arrested on charges of “forcible conversion.”

The trend of launching venomous propaganda campaigns that incite physical attacks against the Christian minority came to fore in 1998 when the Hindu-nationalist Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), the political arm of the chief Hindu extremist organization, Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS), graduated from a party on the margins to a mainstream and ruling party in India.

Soon after the BJP’s accession to power, there was a spate of violence against Christians from December 25, 1998, through January 3, 1999, in the Dangs district of Gujarat state. These attacks included the killing of priests and the raping of nuns to the physical destruction of Christian schools, churches, colleges, and cemeteries. Hundreds of Christians were also forced to “reconvert” to Hinduism. The outbreak of violence in Dangs is typical of how anti-Christian violence is organized in various parts of the country.

According to a report by the Human Rights Watch,“Politics by Other Means: Attacks against Christians in India,” the extremist group Hindu Jagran Manch (HJM) obtained permission to hold a rally on December 25, 1998 in Ahwa town in the Dangs district. Over 4,000 people participated in the rally, shouting anti-Christian slogans while the police stood by and watched. After the rally, the attacks began on Christian places of worship, schools run by missionaries, and shops owned by Christians.

In another incident, Hindu villagers, with the encouragement of a village chief, gang-raped two Christian women after their families refused to denounce Christianity on May 28, 2006 in Nadia village in Bhagwanpura block in Madhya Pradesh state’s Khargone district. A fact-finding report noted,“There have been several attacks against the Christian community since 2003, but the intensity of persecutions increased since May 21, 2006, followed by a rally organized by the Vanvasi Kalyan Ashram (organization for welfare of tribal people).”

Given that hate campaigns and consequent attacks polarize people along religious lines, the BJP, which portrays itself as the “protector” of Hindus, benefits politically.

ICC research noted that hate campaigns attract several local laws, and yet the media - both local and international, the state and federal governments in India as well as international organizations have a tendency to take note only of “violent incidents” while failing to address the backdrop against which such incidents takes place.

Indira Iyengar, a member of the Madhya Pradesh State Minority Commission, explains that the May 28 attack was the act by Hindu fanatics who wanted to punish Tribals from Nadia village, guilty in their eyes of leaving Hinduism for Christianity.

Bhopal (AsiaNews/ICNS) – Women from the village of Nadia "were raped as punishment for changing religion and converting to Christianity". The authorities, "whether civil, police or the courts failed to listen to the women and give them justice," said Indira Iyengar, a member of the Madhya Pradesh State Minority Commission.

In an interview she said that the "horrendous crime perpetrated against Christians in Nadia" started last May 28, around 10 pm, when a group of Hindu nationalist fanatics attacked five Christians—two women and three men—and held them for a whole day. The two women were raped and the three men suffered serious gunshot wounds.

The women, Baishi Pokharia and Rekha Gyarsiya, were able to identify their aggressors, Lull@, Nandla, Kalu, Rewal Singh and Sakaram, all of whom, like their victims, are from the same village.

Next morning local leaders from India's largest party, the Bharatiya Janata Party or BJP, a party that espouses a Hindu nationalist-fundamentalist ideology, reported alleged "mass conversions to Christianity" to the local police due to Christian missionaries coming from neighbouring Maharashtra state.

Even though no clergyman was named in the report, in the charges filed they claimed as proof of their allegations the names of the five who had been attacked the previous day. When the latter eventually made it to the Bhagwanpura police station to press charges against their aggressors they were arrested by Inspector Thakur.

"All this happened because they converted from Hinduism to Christianity," said Ms Iyengar. "The attack should be punished because, in addition to the violence it entailed, it destroys a fundamental human right. But no one wants to listen to us".

"We want Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister to know what is going on here. We want this inequality to end. We want to live in safety," she said.

"We got justice no where," lamented the five victims, who are from a local tribal community. For her part, one of the two women said that the "police told us that our charges were false. They refused to listen. Now, we have no where to go".

The above isn't a repeat post, the earlier posts were of Gujrat, Orissa, etc. This post highlights similar attrocities in the Village of Nadia, it's different, yet identical.

Hakim Bey: Don't just survive while waiting for someone's revolution to clear your head
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Now, we come to Modern Day Slavery.Yes we know, slavery was abolished, but so was Sati (Widow Burning) and Bride Burning, and persecution of Dalits was too.But This is India Today, Governed by Hindutva Terrorists, don't let anyone deceive you into believing what the many western tourists believed, who eventually were raped in India.

No, I'm not speaking of the sex trafficking or sex workers that we hear about in the West, Thailand, Sri Lanka, and even India.I'm speaking of families, father's, husbands, brothers selling their minor relatives, not clandestinely, but publicly, in an open market prevailing in Today's India.

Their own female Chief Minister, Phoolan Devi, was sold as a child slave for sex, This is as modern and present day as it can get.

The desire for sons has created a severe shortage of marriageable young women. As their value rises, unscrupulous men are trading them around the subcontinent and beyond as if they were a mere commodity

Tripla's parents sold her for £170 to a man who had come looking for a wife. He took her away with him, hundreds of miles across India, to the villages outside Delhi. It was the last time she would see her home. For six months, she lived with him in the village, although there was never any formal marriage. Then, two weeks ago, her husband, Ajmer Singh, ordered her to sleep with his brother, who could not find a wife. When Tripla refused, he took her into the fields and beheaded her with a sickle.

When Rishi Kant, an Indian human rights campaigner, tracked down Tripla's parents in the state of Jharkhand and told them the news, her mother broke down in tears. "But what could we do?" she asked him. "We are facing so much poverty we had no choice but to sell her."

Tripla was a victim of the common practice in India of aborting baby girls because parents only want boys. Although she was born and lived into early adulthood, it was the abortions that caused her death. In the villages of Haryana, just outside Delhi, abortions of baby girls have become so common that the shortage of women is severe. Unable to find wives locally, the men have resorted to buying women from the poorer parts of India. Just 25 miles from the glitzy new shopping malls and apartment complexes of Delhi is a slave market for women.

Last week, an Indian doctor became the first to be jailed for telling a woman the sex of her unborn baby. India is trying to stamp out the practice of female foeticide. But in the villages of Haryana, the damage has already been done. Indian parents want boys because girls are seen as a heavy financial burden: the parents have to provide an expensive dowry for their weddings, while sons will bring money into the family when they marry, and have better job prospects.

But in Haryana, so many female foetuses have been aborted that there aren't enough women for the men to marry. The result is a thriving market in women, known in local slang as baros, who have been bought from poorer parts of India. Anyone in the villages can tell you the going rates. The price ranges from 3,000 rupees (£40) to 30,000 rupees for a particularly beautiful woman. Skin colour and age are important pricing criteria. So is whether the woman is a virgin.

When the police arrested Tripla's husband, he could not provide a marriage certificate. Generally, there is no real marriage. The women are sexual "brides" only. Sometimes, brothers who cannot afford more share one woman between them. Often, men who think they have got a good deal on a particularly beautiful bride will sell her at a profit.

Munnia was sold when she was only 17. Considered particularly beautiful, she was resold three times in the space of a few weeks. Like Tripla, she came from Jharkhand, but she was lucky: she escaped. Today she is in a government shelter for women. As she tells her story, she breaks down in tears several times.

"My father sold me to a man called Dharma," she says. "I don't know if he paid for me or not. I came to Delhi with my mother on the train, and then Dharma took me to his village. He used to beat me very badly. He used to hit me until I allowed him to sleep with me. Usually it went on for half an hour."

She was with Dharma just 20 days before he sold her. Her route criss-crossed northern India: Dharam took her to his home in Rajasthan, before selling her to a man in Haryana. "He told me: 'I have sold you to a man for 30,000 rupees'," she says. "But when we got there I realised that man wanted to sell me on as well. Then I ran away."

She found a social worker who helped her escape. In that she was fortunate: few of the women who run away from the villages where she was make it out alive. Government medical tests found she had been raped by two men. She was only 17 at the time, and the age of consent in India is 18.

"My father told me Dharma would marry me, but the marriage never took place," she says, blinking in the sun. She is deeply traumatised by her experiences; all the time she speaks, her hands play nervously with her shawl. When we ask if she wants to go home, she says: "I don't know anything. I have no will and no hope in this world."

She is the lucky one, all the same. In the villages she escaped from, hundreds of women are trapped in similar slave marriages. The village of Ghasera is a world away from nearby Delhi. It is still walled, like a fortress from centuries ago, and you enter through a narrow gateway. The roads are dirt and the houses ramshackle huts: It is hard to believe you're just an hour and a half's drive from the bright new India that is being courted as an ally by the US and attracting investors from across the world. More than 100 brides have been imported to this village alone, according to locals.

The people are hostile and crowd round strangers suspiciously. Even the police don't risk coming in to these villages unarmed. Villagers have attacked police who tried to rescue the brides, and set their cars on fire.

Anwari Katun was sold for £130 and brought here from Jharkhand. The house she is living in now is thick with flies, so many they make patterns in the air as they swarm. A small girl is asleep in the corner, flies crawling over her face.

Ms Katun wants to tell her story, but the villagers crowd into her house and stand by menacingly as she tries to speak. Her fear is evident as they stand by. Most prominent is an old woman who moves forward threateningly when Ms Katun says she is not happy. Cowed by the crowd she says: "I accept what happened to me. I'm not happy but I accept it. This is a woman's life. The only thing I want is that this doesn't happen to my sisters, that they never get sold like this."

With that, she sits in silence. Desperation is written on her face, but she is afraid to say any more with the villagers crowding around. Once they are here, with no family and no friends the women are helpless.

Rishi Kant has spent the past four years rescuing women like Ms Katun. A jovial man in designer sunglasses, he once spent four nights in Delhi's notorious Tihar jail when police carried out mass arrests of protesters at a human rights rally. His organisation, Shkati Vahini, has rescued more than 150 trafficked women. But he says he can do nothing for Ms Katun at the moment. The government women's shelter in Haryana state has places for only 25 women, and it is full. When there is no space, he can do nothing: there is nowhere else safe for the women to go. As soon as a place opens up, he says, he will go back for Ms Katun.

To get the women out of the villages, he has to enlist the help of the police. In villages such as Ghasera, the police only raid in heavy numbers, and only in the middle of the night, when they can take the villagers by surprise. Otherwise, the heavily armed villagers will resist by force. But the police are co-operative, and do get the women out. Then the long process of tracking down their parents, and trying to get them home, if possible, begins.

Getting the women out of the villages is often not easy. Recently, Mr Kant found a trafficked woman who convinced him that the man who had brought her to Haryana was running a business, and had several more women. He and the police waited in the hope the woman could lead them to the trafficker. But when they got back the next day, it appeared he had become suspicious. The woman had disappeared. Mr Kant believes she was probably sold to another part of India. He hasn't found any trace of her.

Many of the trafficked women in the villages are minors. Shabila came to Ghasera from Assam, a thousand miles away. She says she is 25, but she doesn't look a day over 15. One of the women in the government shelter, Havari, looks the same age. She is highly disturbed and talks at one moment of having had a baby, then denies it the next. She has hacked off all her hair. There is no psychiatric counselling for the women.

One of the women in Ghasera told us her sister had been sold to the village along with her, then kidnapped from it and exported to Oman. She was desperate for help to get her out.

Some of the trafficked women become traffickers themselves. Maryam, who was sold here from her native Maharashtra in 1985, has just arranged the sale of another woman, Roxana, to the village for 10,000 rupees. Although Ghasera is poor, it is better off than many of the remote villages the women come from. With their contacts there, the trafficked women can easily entice others to come voluntarily. But once they come, there is no way out. Some of the women become reconciled to their lives. Afsana speaks openly in front of her husband of her unhappiness over the years here: she is not afraid of him. Although there was no formal marriage, they have stayed together.

"I never thought I would come here. I never even thought about where Haryana was," she says. "There are several girls who do not want to stay, but what can they do? They are in a helpless situation."

Her husband, Dawood, could not get a wife locally because he has a damaged eye. He travelled to Bihar and saw several women before choosing Afsana. He paid £40. He complains that there aren't enough women in Haryana, but he does not see the link between aborting female foetuses and the shortage of women.

In Asouti, a village a short drive away, you can find the reason behind all the suffering of the slave brides of Haryana. Lakhmi Devi had five abortions, each because the child she was carrying was a girl. She had already given birth to four daughters.

She is still tortured by guilt over the abortions. "It is better for a mother to die than to kill her daughters," she says. "I was under immense pressure from my husband's family to provide him with a son. My mother-in-law even demanded I get another woman to sleep with my husband to give him a son." Eventually, she gave birth to a boy, Praveen, and her agony was over.

A recent study by Indian and Canadian researchers found 500,000 girls are aborted every year in India. Today Haryana has only 861 women for every 1,000 men. Strict laws have been put in place to prevent the practice. Abortion is legal in India but testing the gender of a foetus is not. Anil Singh, a Haryana doctor, was sentenced last week to two years in prison for telling a woman she was carrying a girl and offering an abortion.

But still, the abortions go on. To get round the police, doctors have started using codes to tell the people the sex of their baby: if the ultrasound report is written in blue ink, it's a boy; if it's in red ink, it's a girl. If the report is delivered on Monday, it's a boy, if it's Friday, it's a girl.

Meanwhile the trafficked women keep coming, from across India, to fill the places of the unborn women.

Tripla's parents sold her for £170 to a man who had come looking for a wife. He took her away with him, hundreds of miles across India, to the villages outside Delhi. It was the last time she would see her home. For six months, she lived with him in the village, although there was never any formal marriage. Then, two weeks ago, her husband, Ajmer Singh, ordered her to sleep with his brother, who could not find a wife. When Tripla refused, he took her into the fields and beheaded her with a sickle.

When Rishi Kant, an Indian human rights campaigner, tracked down Tripla's parents in the state of Jharkhand and told them the news, her mother broke down in tears. "But what could we do?" she asked him. "We are facing so much poverty we had no choice but to sell her."

Tripla was a victim of the common practice in India of aborting baby girls because parents only want boys. Although she was born and lived into early adulthood, it was the abortions that caused her death. In the villages of Haryana, just outside Delhi, abortions of baby girls have become so common that the shortage of women is severe. Unable to find wives locally, the men have resorted to buying women from the poorer parts of India. Just 25 miles from the glitzy new shopping malls and apartment complexes of Delhi is a slave market for women.

Last week, an Indian doctor became the first to be jailed for telling a woman the sex of her unborn baby. India is trying to stamp out the practice of female foeticide. But in the villages of Haryana, the damage has already been done. Indian parents want boys because girls are seen as a heavy financial burden: the parents have to provide an expensive dowry for their weddings, while sons will bring money into the family when they marry, and have better job prospects.

But in Haryana, so many female foetuses have been aborted that there aren't enough women for the men to marry. The result is a thriving market in women, known in local slang as baros, who have been bought from poorer parts of India. Anyone in the villages can tell you the going rates. The price ranges from 3,000 rupees (£40) to 30,000 rupees for a particularly beautiful woman. Skin colour and age are important pricing criteria. So is whether the woman is a virgin.

When the police arrested Tripla's husband, he could not provide a marriage certificate. Generally, there is no real marriage. The women are sexual "brides" only. Sometimes, brothers who cannot afford more share one woman between them. Often, men who think they have got a good deal on a particularly beautiful bride will sell her at a profit.

Munnia was sold when she was only 17. Considered particularly beautiful, she was resold three times in the space of a few weeks. Like Tripla, she came from Jharkhand, but she was lucky: she escaped. Today she is in a government shelter for women. As she tells her story, she breaks down in tears several times.

"My father sold me to a man called Dharma," she says. "I don't know if he paid for me or not. I came to Delhi with my mother on the train, and then Dharma took me to his village. He used to beat me very badly. He used to hit me until I allowed him to sleep with me. Usually it went on for half an hour."

She was with Dharma just 20 days before he sold her. Her route criss-crossed northern India: Dharam took her to his home in Rajasthan, before selling her to a man in Haryana. "He told me: 'I have sold you to a man for 30,000 rupees'," she says. "But when we got there I realised that man wanted to sell me on as well. Then I ran away."

She found a social worker who helped her escape. In that she was fortunate: few of the women who run away from the villages where she was make it out alive. Government medical tests found she had been raped by two men. She was only 17 at the time, and the age of consent in India is 18.

"My father told me Dharma would marry me, but the marriage never took place," she says, blinking in the sun. She is deeply traumatised by her experiences; all the time she speaks, her hands play nervously with her shawl. When we ask if she wants to go home, she says: "I don't know anything. I have no will and no hope in this world."

She is the lucky one, all the same. In the villages she escaped from, hundreds of women are trapped in similar slave marriages. The village of Ghasera is a world away from nearby Delhi. It is still walled, like a fortress from centuries ago, and you enter through a narrow gateway. The roads are dirt and the houses ramshackle huts: It is hard to believe you're just an hour and a half's drive from the bright new India that is being courted as an ally by the US and attracting investors from across the world. More than 100 brides have been imported to this village alone, according to locals.

The people are hostile and crowd round strangers suspiciously. Even the police don't risk coming in to these villages unarmed. Villagers have attacked police who tried to rescue the brides, and set their cars on fire.

Anwari Katun was sold for £130 and brought here from Jharkhand. The house she is living in now is thick with flies, so many they make patterns in the air as they swarm. A small girl is asleep in the corner, flies crawling over her face.

Ms Katun wants to tell her story, but the villagers crowd into her house and stand by menacingly as she tries to speak. Her fear is evident as they stand by. Most prominent is an old woman who moves forward threateningly when Ms Katun says she is not happy. Cowed by the crowd she says: "I accept what happened to me. I'm not happy but I accept it. This is a woman's life. The only thing I want is that this doesn't happen to my sisters, that they never get sold like this."With that, she sits in silence. Desperation is written on her face, but she is afraid to say any more with the villagers crowding around. Once they are here, with no family and no friends the women are helpless.

Rishi Kant has spent the past four years rescuing women like Ms Katun. A jovial man in designer sunglasses, he once spent four nights in Delhi's notorious Tihar jail when police carried out mass arrests of protesters at a human rights rally. His organisation, Shkati Vahini, has rescued more than 150 trafficked women. But he says he can do nothing for Ms Katun at the moment. The government women's shelter in Haryana state has places for only 25 women, and it is full. When there is no space, he can do nothing: there is nowhere else safe for the women to go. As soon as a place opens up, he says, he will go back for Ms Katun.

To get the women out of the villages, he has to enlist the help of the police. In villages such as Ghasera, the police only raid in heavy numbers, and only in the middle of the night, when they can take the villagers by surprise. Otherwise, the heavily armed villagers will resist by force. But the police are co-operative, and do get the women out. Then the long process of tracking down their parents, and trying to get them home, if possible, begins.

Getting the women out of the villages is often not easy. Recently, Mr Kant found a trafficked woman who convinced him that the man who had brought her to Haryana was running a business, and had several more women. He and the police waited in the hope the woman could lead them to the trafficker. But when they got back the next day, it appeared he had become suspicious. The woman had disappeared. Mr Kant believes she was probably sold to another part of India. He hasn't found any trace of her.

Many of the trafficked women in the villages are minors. Shabila came to Ghasera from Assam, a thousand miles away. She says she is 25, but she doesn't look a day over 15. One of the women in the government shelter, Havari, looks the same age. She is highly disturbed and talks at one moment of having had a baby, then denies it the next. She has hacked off all her hair. There is no psychiatric counselling for the women.

One of the women in Ghasera told us her sister had been sold to the village along with her, then kidnapped from it and exported to Oman. She was desperate for help to get her out.

Some of the trafficked women become traffickers themselves. Maryam, who was sold here from her native Maharashtra in 1985, has just arranged the sale of another woman, Roxana, to the village for 10,000 rupees. Although Ghasera is poor, it is better off than many of the remote villages the women come from. With their contacts there, the trafficked women can easily entice others to come voluntarily. But once they come, there is no way out. Some of the women become reconciled to their lives. Afsana speaks openly in front of her husband of her unhappiness over the years here: she is not afraid of him. Although there was no formal marriage, they have stayed together.

"I never thought I would come here. I never even thought about where Haryana was," she says. "There are several girls who do not want to stay, but what can they do? They are in a helpless situation."

Her husband, Dawood, could not get a wife locally because he has a damaged eye. He travelled to Bihar and saw several women before choosing Afsana. He paid £40. He complains that there aren't enough women in Haryana, but he does not see the link between aborting female foetuses and the shortage of women.

In Asouti, a village a short drive away, you can find the reason behind all the suffering of the slave brides of Haryana. Lakhmi Devi had five abortions, each because the child she was carrying was a girl. She had already given birth to four daughters.

She is still tortured by guilt over the abortions. "It is better for a mother to die than to kill her daughters," she says. "I was under immense pressure from my husband's family to provide him with a son. My mother-in-law even demanded I get another woman to sleep with my husband to give him a son." Eventually, she gave birth to a boy, Praveen, and her agony was over.

A recent study by Indian and Canadian researchers found 500,000 girls are aborted every year in India. Today Haryana has only 861 women for every 1,000 men. Strict laws have been put in place to prevent the practice. Abortion is legal in India but testing the gender of a foetus is not. Anil Singh, a Haryana doctor, was sentenced last week to two years in prison for telling a woman she was carrying a girl and offering an abortion.

But still, the abortions go on. To get round the police, doctors have started using codes to tell the people the sex of their baby: if the ultrasound report is written in blue ink, it's a boy; if it's in red ink, it's a girl. If the report is delivered on Monday, it's a boy, if it's Friday, it's a girl.

Meanwhile the trafficked women keep coming, from across India, to fill the places of the unborn women.

Hakim Bey: Don't just survive while waiting for someone's revolution to clear your head
Napoleon Bonaparte: The world suffers a lot, not because of the violence of bad people, but because of the silence of good people!

MUMBAI: Members of the Maharashtra Navanirman Sena (MNS), a right-wing political party, and the Maharashtra reconstruction party burnt music albums of Pakistani artists in Mumbai during a protest against the Pakistani government on Tuesday.Indian Maharashtra extremist Navnirman Sena chief Raj Thackeray Monday said his party would not allow Pakistani artists to perform in the state.'We won't allow Pakistani artists to perform here. Nor will we allow anyone to sell cassettes, DVDs featuring their work,' Thackeray said.He said no film starring Pakistani artists would be allowed to be screened anywhere in the state.'Why should we patronise Pakistani artists when terrorists come from their country and kill our countrymen?' Raj said.'Do not force us to make you pull out cassettes of Pakistani artists,' he warned music retailers.Shiv Sena's students wing Bhartiya Vidyarthi Sena had issued a similar statement on Sunday.

ISLAMABAD, Pakistan—While America’s ‘Wag The Dog’ media is busy in demonizing Pakistan, and the CIA focuses on pushing the beleaguered American soldiers in Afghanistan and Iraq into a new war with Pakistan, India is quietly emerging as a new ‘terror central’, with disturbing new developments that continue to escape the glare of the American/British media.

Neatly tucked under the well constructed – and expensive – veneer of ‘Incredible India’ advertisements on international television channels is the hottest Indian story: The fast rise of Indian religious terrorist organizations that have penetrated India’s military and politics. The movement is so strong, resourceful and organized that it warrants the label India’s Hindu al-Qaeda.

The arrest last week of a serving Indian army colonel who along with some other officers has allegedly transferred military funds, material and training to terrorist groups is a matter that should not escape the attention of India’s neighbors, since it is directly linked to New Delhi’s new desire for expanding its reach beyond its borders and to serve as the regional policeman for American interests in the Asia-Pacific.

One more reason to closely watch what’s happening in India is that there is some evidence that parts of the Indian government are busy reading CIA’s Latin America handbook of patronizing client militias and using them for strategic objectives. In India’s case, this means Sri Lanka, Bangladesh, Nepal, and most importantly Pakistan and China.

The changes taking place in India are truly breathtaking. This is a nation and culture that never espoused violence. Until 1947, the Indians lived for ten centuries under foreign rule –Muslims, British, Dutch and Portuguese- without major resistance. This is the only major civilization in the region that never expanded beyond its natural borders. That’s why it is important to understand that the new rise of Hindu militancy has everything to do with India’s new interest in creating an image of a superpower.

The world’s first religion-based genocide in the 21st century occurred in India, where in 2002 more than 2,500 Indian Muslims were burned alive in riots by Hindu terror groups, according to a hearing conducted by the U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom on communal riots in India and the U.S. response, held on 10 June, 2002.

While CIA director Gen. Michael Hayden was accusing Pakistan over the weekend of becoming the hub of all terrorism in the world, a newspaper in Malta on Sunday published the chilling story of an Indian priest who escaped death and recounted to his audience how India’s Hindu terrorist organizations burned ordinary Christians alive and raped nuns on the streets of Orrissa in east India in August.

Pakistan gets a lot of bad press mainly from the American and the British media for religious extremism. Certainly we have a problem and we’re dealing with it. But it pales in comparison with India’s. Consider this: Since the start of this century, almost nine years ago, India has seen the targeted murder of over 600 Christians, most of them in riots this summer, not to mention the genocide of Indian Muslims. Hindu terror groups, like Shiv Sena, Bajrang Dal, and the Durga Vahini have established militant training camps across India where members are indoctrinated against other religions and Indian Hindu supremacy is emphasized. Recently, the Durga Vahini has proudly distributed pictures of its female members wearing the sari and brandishing guns at an indoctrination camp. In Kashmir, the Indian government and military are recruiting poor Hindu peasants into Hindu militias armed to confront Muslim majority’s demand for an end to Indian occupation.

There are reports now that the arrested Indian army colonel and some other officers linked to Hindu terror groups might have had something to do with the burning alive of tens of Pakistani tourists aboard the so-called friendship train service Samjhota Express in 2006.

In short, Pakistan is America’s and Britain’s favorite punching bag, but India is fast becoming the new terror central. And not all of it is by accident. The Indians have used this technique in Sri Lanka, where Indian money, weapons and indoctrination kept a civil war alive for decades. In China, the Indians are recruiting, training and arming Tibetan rebels fighting Beijing. And even American commentators are admitting now that India is meddling in Pakistan using contacts with old friends in the Karzai government.

There is also no question that the mythology that has surrounded Pakistani intelligence agencies’ purported links to religious groups in Afghanistan and Kashmir might have impressed some Indian security officials and played a role in influencing Indian thinking.

But the problem with this genie that the Indian political and military establishments have apparently unleashed is that it is bound to feed on India’s massive poverty problem, especially in the next few years when India’s economy is projected to considerably slow down, starting next year, as a result of a global recession.

This religious extremist surge in India is also a matter of concern because Hindu organizations have found unexpected friends in America’s Christian right and the conservatives, who are using political connections to help Hindu Indian-American organizations insert activists in key positions in American government and media. The Israeli right has also established strong ties to the rightwing Hindu militants.

It’s all right for the Indians to think in terms of projecting power and adopt whatever means necessary to do it. The problem with this thinking is that expensive showoff space shuttles to Moon –when almost no one else in the world is doing it for now- won't reduce poverty among the world's largest single concentration of poor people on earth. In India.

Footnote:

An Indian citizen, Najid Hussain, testified on June 10, 2002, in front of the U.S. COMMISSION ON INTERNATIONAL RELIGIOUS FREEDOM HEARING ON COMMUNAL VIOLENCE IN GUJARAT, INDIA AND THE U.S. RESPONSE: “During my last visit to India in March while Ahmedabad was still burning, I met a young man at Ahmedabad Railway Station with a child in one arm and a little bag in the other. He asked me if I needed my shoes polished. I did not, but said yes. He did not have the foot-rest or a stand on which I could rest my foot while he polished the shoes. So I just put one foot forward and he started to polish. All the time that he was polishing my shoes, the child did not let go of his arm and he did not force her either. He polished the shoes just with one hand holding the child in the other. I advised him that he should buy a little shoe stand that could help him polish better and with ease. With tears in his eyes, he said he lost that when the rioters burnt his house a week ago. His wife and the mother of the child was also burnt along with the house. The little child was traumatized. That was the reason she would not let go of his arm. He said he puts her down only when she is asleep.

That man was not a terrorist. That man was not a fundamentalist. That man was not an anti-national. That man had no time even to think about any of these activities. He was only an innocent, hard working and poor Muslim who had a hard time making a living and raising the family. But he was targeted just because he was a Muslim.

“In the aftermath of the killing of my father-in-law, the former Member of Parliament Ahsan Jafri, it is an unavoidable conclusion that the government of Gujarat did not just give a tacit approval to the perpetrators of the violence against Muslims, but connived in the pogrom. There are evidences that the police, the judiciary and the hospitals, all became a part of that operation in ethnic cleansing by Hindu extremists and Sangh Parivaries (BJP, VHP, RSS, Bajrang Dal) in Gujarat. The carnage carried out in Gujarat in the aftermath of Godhra incident was pre-planned. The detailed and meticulous preparation of that operation, the availability of weapons, the list of houses and businesses to be targeted based on voters lists and ration card records, the availability of bottled water for the rioters, and mob leaders getting riot instructions and help on cell phones, suggest that Godhra was only a convenient excuse. These extremists were fully prepared and on standby to carry out the violence against Muslim men, women and children, and were only waiting for the opportunity.”

India is the first country in the 21st century to have a massive genocide: 2,000 burned alive in 2002. In Kashmir this month, Indian soldiers shoot and kill an aging Kashmiri politician during a peaceful protest. Four years ago, a European priest and his son were burned alive by long-haired, saffron-clad Hindu religious workers. Welcome to secularisms false prophet, a nation of rising religious extremism, two dozen raging freedom movements, all hidden under the mask of a colorful film industry that provides distraction for a troubled country.

There is a distinct lobby in United States and Britain that played a criminal role in fostering Indian terrorism. It did this by covering up Hindu terrorism against Christians, Muslims, Sikhs and low-caste Indians. Have you seen any of the above pictures published by any American or British newspaper or news service? See the charred bodies of Indian Muslims burned alive by Hindu mobs in 2002, in the 21st century’s first genocide. And you might think this picture is from a Hollywood movie set on pre-historic humans. No. These are Hindu religious devotees, or terrorists to be more accurate, who went on the rampage in a north Indian city in 1992 were they attacked and demolished a huge historical mosque going back 500 years. And to the right, the picture of an Indian woman who happened to be on the route of a mob of Hindus in the Gujrat genocide of 2002. She was an Indian Muslim. So they attacked her, tore her clothes off and then burned her alive.http://groups.google...genocide-nation

Tensions heightened when fanatic Hindu mobs imposed an economic blockade on the Jammu- Srinagar National Highway with Kashmiri Muslim truck drivers targeted. Indian Punjab, tellingly, followed suit, according to a BBC report, to once again expose the great myth of Indian secularism. Be part of the great developments taking place in Indian-occupied Kashmir in August 2008. India showed its ugly face to the world this month, when Indian settlers and outsiders tried to impose an economic blockade on Srinagar. While we are busy in Pakistan in our political instability created by the ruling coalition, Kashmir is in the middle of change. This is the time for Pakistanis to pay attention and support the Kashmiris against Indian brutality. Read this simple and fascinating story of the coming change.

SRINAGAR, Pakistan—It started end of May and has built steadily ever since: the resistance to the Indian occupation of Jammu & Kashmir.

The movement began when the state government agreed to grant 40 hectares of forest land to the Amarnath Cave Shrine Board as the rest and recuperation area for Hindu pilgrimage to the cave. What followed is a general strike and students' protests against the plan throughout the Muslim-majority state and persuaded the state government to take a stand, fearing this was another ploy by the Indian government to change the demography of the disputed state from Muslim to Hindu.

This prompted Hindu retribution and violent clashes were reported between Muslims, Hindus, police and the Hindu protestors in Jammu, with more troops having to be called in for a curfew to be imposed. Reports of assaults on Muslims poured in, along with Muslim homes being set ablaze.

Shutdowns followed across the entire Kashmir Valley called by a freedom leader, Syed Ali Shah Geelani, in an expression of solidarity with the Muslims in Jammu. Geelani noted that the administration had failed to protect the lives and properties of the Muslims in Jummu with Hindus on the rampage and matters began to spiral out of control.

Tensions heightened when fanatic Hindu mobs imposed an economic blockade on the Jummu- Srinagar National Highway with Kashmiri Muslim truck drivers targeted. Indian Punjab, tellingly, followed suit, according to a BBC report, to once again expose the great myth of Indian secularism.

Another BBC report from Srinagar had Muslim truck drivers refusing to travel on that road, fearful for their lives. The BBC Srinagar correspondent reported that fruit exports worth millions of dollars perished, as a consequence, with stocks of food grain, fuel and other needed supplies rapidly running out.

Just before retaliatory violence reached fever-pitch, a two-day International Kashmir Peace Conference in Washington (July ’08) is reported to have called for "the establishment of an independent and credible investigative commission to probe human rights abuses". This call was reinforced when Z.G. Muhammad, the acclaimed author of 'The Cindering Chinars' and 'Kashmir in War and Diplomacy’, quoted the venerated Mr. Yusuf Buch enunciating at the conference: "In Kashmir, campaigns of murderous cruelty have been sustained for decades; when the population gets tired of militant insurgency, the repression seems to subside but when an act of police or paramilitary savagery is protested, the orgy of murder and rape is re-enacted.”

Clearly aware of this, India's prime minister, Dr Manmohan Singh, turned to Hindu nationalist leader of the opposition L.K. Advani and called for an all-party conference to resolve the issue. But the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) represented by Mr. Advani, was said to have been much more inclined towards guarding the interests of the Amarnath Sangharsh Samati (ASS), the spear-head of the Jammu agitation. The ASS reportedly was not prepared to accept anything short of the allocation of the 40 acres of land to the Amarnath Shrine Board – which is based in New Delhi!

Subsequently, an 18-member cross-party parliamentary delegation was dispatched to Jammu and Srinagar for a solution to draw the major concession from some of the moderates in Kashmir's All Parties Huriayat Conference, of their having no objection to the Hindu demand for a separate state in contiguous areas where Hindus constituted the majority. These areas were identified as Jammu, Kathua, Samaba, Udhampur, and half of Resai, with the majority Muslim areas of Poonch, Rajouri, and Doda districts merged with the adjoining Muslim belt.

Simultaneously, the Conference endorsed the demand of the Kashmiri fruit farmers and traders to take their produce to across the Line of Control (LOC) to Muzzfarabad to draw in urgently needed supplies from across the border. On this India's electronic media asked India's home minister Shivraj Patil whether bifurcation or trifurcation (as Ladakh's Leh district is Bhuddist) of Kashmir could be a possible solution, to which question the home minister replied he was not competent to judge.

The upshot: an additional 10,000 troops deployed to disrupt the Muzaffarabad- bound march and more killings. With the government unable to stem the tide of unrest, the Huriyat Conference's Ali Shah Geelani and Mirwaiz Omer Farooq were quickly put under house arrest, while Jammu and Kashmir Liberation Front (JFKL) leader, Mohammad Yasin Malik's fast-unto-death protest saw him hospitalized and in critical condition. If that was not enough, Indian security forces then shot dead an alleged resistance fighter along with two farmers and following that, an important Huryiat Conference leader, Sheikh Abdul Aziz, together with an unspecified number of others, as a reported 100,000 protestors began their march to Muzaffarabad.

Despite a curfew being imposed in all 10 districts of Indian-occupied Kashmir close to 250,000 gathered for the funeral prayers of the slain leader and thousands are reported to have stormed Geelani's home to free him. Farooq too was released soon after and the two called for peace as communal killings ravaged the Valley. But are peace and harmony possible in an area where the Muslim majority sees itself persecuted for its religious beliefs?

Zafar Choudhary, in his Countercurrent August 8 article 'Why is Jammu burning' underplays this. He writes, "What has shattered in the last 45 days is the myth that 'Jammu' and 'Kashmir' can behave like a common entity called 'Jammu and Kashmir' … In the early days of agitation, the popular slogans heard in Jammu were "we want the land returned … These slogans are no more audible. Now people are asking for an end to Kashmir's domination over Jammu. The problem is now no more between the government and the local people on a controversial decision. It has been now projected as Jammu versus Kashmir … When small spark has put the state on fire it has also demonstrated that efforts of dousing flames in one region may well prove as fuel in the other. It is high time that New Delhi's Kashmir policy is redrawn and sentiments beyond Kashmir are also taken care of."

That as it may, the sentiments evoked on the Jammu blockade have accentuated Muslim-Hindu differences in Kashmir and the front-page picture of the crowd gathered to pay homage to Sheikh Abdul Aziz published in Pakistan's Daily Times on Wednesday August 13, is indeed worth a thousand words.

Why would Hindu extremists attack Taj Mahal? The West does not know that a mosque is part of this mausoleum built by a Muslim ruler for his wife. The four walls of the monument that look toward India from all directions speak only one language: Arabic, from the Holy Quran, carved in large inscriptions. You can’t miss it. The Indians have masterly hidden this truth in their attempt to own this marvel as an Indian product. But Hindi extremists won’t have any of it. They are attacking Taj Mahal precisely because of its Muslim heritage.

A group of saffron-clad Hindu extremists entered the Muslim marvel of Taj Mahal, started walking around the monument performing Hindu prayers. Welcome to India’s Hindu terrorists. India is creating al-Qaeda-style civilian militant groups and arming them with heavy weapons. Financing is coming from the narco-trade run by none other than Indian military. This is the face of India that New Delhi’s image makers want to hide from the world.

NEW DELHI, India—India is said to be multi-faceted nation with a flourishing multi-culturalism and securalism, but in reality it expects Muslims and other minorities to make way for the Hindu onward march in every field. Hindus want every thing in India for themselves. They have enjoyed all benefits of progress and development to themselves leaving nothing to Muslims, except insults and jails. This write up focuses on Indian chauvinistic activities in the spheres of religion, cultural heritage of Muslims, the plight of Kashmiris and the hidden agenda of the Indian occupation of Jammu & Kashmir.

ONE: Why should India train Hindu extremists, Militants and others?

A group of 10 Hindutva activists-cum-militants belonging to Shiv Sena, a core fundamentalist political outfit, sneaked into the Taj Mahal at Agra on July 24 and performed prayers (puja) within the precincts on Thursday. They were taken into custody and later released without any hurdles.

The Hindu Shiv Sena activists, including three women, bought tickets and entered one by one into the Taj Mahal in the afternoon. They performed some kind of puja and 'parikrama' (circling of the monument) of the Muslim edifice/ structure with folded hands. After a while they were forced to stop the ritual when some people brought the matter to the ‘knowledge’ of the security personnel, who in the first place allowed them to enter and even saw them wearing saffron scarves. A minor scuffle ensued after which the police took them to the Taj Ganj Police station.

This is a routine matter for Indian governments when Hindus perform illegal activities. Had Muslims enter the temples and remove the idols and clean up the structure to be able to offer prayers to God, the matter would be different. Hindu outfits, who consider themselves above law and have every right to do anything they please with Muslims and their mosques, have been on a rampage for political reasons with concocted stories against Islam. The latest story or discovery of Hindu extremists and their researchers led by Shiv Sena is that the 17th century monument is actually a Shiva temple. Hindu extremists have announced earlier that they would perform puja and aarti on every Monday during the Hindu month of ‘Shravan’, considered auspicious for the worship of Shiva. This past Monday, they had been prevented from entering the Taj Mahal. They later performed the ‘rituals’ at the Taj Mahal corridor.

A Shiv Sena chief in Agra said they had gone there as ordinary citizens of India and felt like praying. ‘So, what's wrong with that,’ he asked. The officer belonging to the Archaeological Society of India who is in-charge of the Taj Mahal tried to justify what the Hindu fundamentalists tried to do at the Taj Mahal:

"They came in a group as ordinary citizens and purchased tickets. We were with them all the time along with the Taj Ganj police station in-charge. With folded hands they went towards the mosque and went back. How could we have prevented their entry as they did nothing objectionable? I don't know why such a hullabaloo is being made about it. They told me their program is for Mondays and had come today just to see the Taj Mahal.”

As a Hindu extremist organization thriving on anti-Islamic and anti-Minority sentiments, Siva Sena's activities, like any other extremist religious groups, are supposed to be under scrutiny by the government, but as this incident shows, the government knows about such activities and knew in this case what the Hindu extremists were planning to do, and yet the Indian authorities allowed the Hindus do their prayers (puja) inside the Taj Mahal. The Hindus were conducting their worship in a Muslim mosque which houses the tomb of the wife of the Moghul emperor.

Enough of this nonsense for this nation where people are being divided along religious and fundamentalist lines. It is high time Indian judiciary stepped in to clear up the Hindutva mess the rulers over decades have created in appeasing the majority population.

TWO - Why India trains Hindu militants?

Even as India keeps blaming Pakistan of training freedom fighting Kashmiris, it also trains the Hindu militants and Kashmiri Muslims. With this Indian strategists have decided to kill Kashmiris directly by Hindus themselves, leading a civil war in Jammu & Kashmir. The great idea behind this new scheme is to delay granting independence to Jammu & Kashmir.

As if state terrorist forces are not enough to kill the Kashmiri Muslims, now the UPA government of India and the Indian-occupied J&K government under Governor's rule have embarked upon a massive training of Hindu militants in Jammu region to fight the so-called Muslim ‘terrorists’, which only means Kashmir Muslims, who still demand sovereignty back from the occupying terror forces of India.

After establishing Village Defense Committees (VDC) and handing people with modern weaponry in hilly areas of Jammu province to fight ‘militancy’, Indian terror security agencies are now busy establishing Self Defense Committees (SDC) in all the hilly villages of Jammu. The SDCs would be like VDCs but every member of SDC is given an AK-47 rifle and other heavy weaponry to use against anybody without any accountability. The SDCs consist of 15 volunteers from every village who are registered with the police department before receiving rifles and ammunition.

Thus, Sarankote Police Station in Poonch district has been converted into a zonal office for registering SDCs and people are being introduced to SDCs through the public address system and many SDCs have already been registered. ‘The people who are being registered as members of SDCs are mostly illiterate and there is every possibility that these people can misuse the weapons for their personal grudges or animosities. This can result in a civil war in the area,’ says an elderly inhabitant of Poonch.

This policy of distributing heavy weapons to local civilian militias has anguished the Muslim population in these areas, who feel threatened as police is handing over the weapons only to the members of Hindu community.

Yet, the moot question remains: Why should India train extra Hindus when it has surplus terror military forces, charged with the ‘patriotic’ task of killing the Kashmiris and when they have been doing the ‘job’ pretty well over decades as heavy militarization of Jammu Kashmir by India, killing thousands of innocent Kashmiris?

THREE - India promotes Narcotics in JK

Very few Indians know that their military units are thoroughly corrupt. Anti-social and anti-people activities like smuggling and narcotics are a part of the Indian military services. Police on 10 July arrested an Indian army trooper and recovered heroin worth Rs. 10,000,000 fom his possession in Rajouri district.

Acting on a tip-off, police intercepted soldier Sumeet Singh at Inphaja Morh in Kandi belt Saturday night and recovered the heroin. Singh, who is working with 13 Jammu and Kashmir Light Infantry regiment, is presently posted at Udhampur and was on leave when arrested. A case under Narcotics Drugs and Psychotropic Substances Act (NDPSA) has been registered against him. Military establishment has confirmed the arrest.

It is amusing to note that Indian propaganda abroad includes branding Kashmiris, Bangladeshis and Pakistanis as terrorists and placing slur on Kashmiri, Afghani and Pakistani Muslims involved in drug trade and narcotics. Genocide, secret mass graves, illegal land grabs, economic terrorism, promotion of Hindu religion in Kashmir, and now trade in narcotics and drugs are the goals of the occupying Indian terror forces from India in Kashmir.

Dr.Abdul Ruff Colachal is a research scholar, School of International Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi.